Re: Control pppd behaviour

[James Carlson <carlsonj@workingcode.com>]

Ashmath Khan wrote:
> Its neither about PPP negotiation nor about separate invocation of pppd.
> 
> As I mentioned its about retry mechanism or the algorithm or you can
> call it the strategy employed to retry if things fail.
> 
> For the normal retries if the retry interval is 30 secs and max retries is 5 ...
> then the 1st retry is at 30 secs
> 2nd at 60 secs
> 3rd at 90 secs
> 
> But I need it something like this:
> 1st retry at 30 secs
> 2nd retry at 120 secs
> 3rd retry at 300 secs etc..
> 
> Hope its clear. thanks.

Ashmath Khan wrote:
> I want to consider all failure cases(at lcp, at chap etc), any
> negotiation failure etc, for which pppd would retry with the server
> from scratch.
> Basically I don't pppd to retry after a failure but I want pppd to
> exit, and then the retry will be done by my program by relaunching
> pppd. is this possible ? maybe i need to keep the retries as zero ?
> thanks.

How about using the pppd "updetach" option, and using a script to invoke
and retry pppd as desired?

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James Carlson         42.703N 71.076W         <carlsonj@workingcode.com>