[plug] pppd redialling too often

[Steve Baker]

Thanks for the ideas, and while both are obviously effective, does anybody
have any idea why the documented 'holdoff' option for pppd doesn't work?
Does the documentation need to be recompiled?

bakes
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-----Original Message-----
From: Brad Campbell <brad at seme.com.au>
To: plug at linux.org.au <plug at linux.org.au>
Date: Friday, 19 November 1999 12:38
Subject: Re: [plug] pppd redialling too often


>>
>> I had a similar requirement recently (iinet wnt a 10 minute delay unless
>> you've overrun your 200 hours, when they want 30 !), and ended up by
>> putting together a quick and dirty shell script that connects, waits to
be
>> disconnected, sleeps 10 minutes and then goes round the loop again (but
>> only up to the usual 'going home' time for the client).
>>
>> Like I said, grubby, but it works very well.
>>
>> Paul
>
>I did it slightly differently.
>In my ip-down script, I do an
>echo block > /var/run/diald/diald.fifo
>and I put a file called nodial in /etc/ppp
>I then set an at command to run a file called /var/diald/unblock
>11 minutes after NOW.
>
>/etc/diald/unblock just unblocks diald and removes the nodial file.
>The ppp-dial script check for the nodial file, and aborts if it exists.
>It also checks for a file called nightdown.
>
>I then have a cron entry to place nightdown in /etc/ppp at 6.15pm
>and remove it and run the unblock script at 7.45 am.
>This effectively gives me a connection all day during working hours
>with no wasted phone calls at night or on the weekend.
>It's a little convoluted, but it works exceedingly well..
>
>
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