[plug] pppd redial - variable holdoff time

[Steve Boak]

On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 01:46 pm, Onno Benschop wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-09-19 at 13:00, Steve Boak wrote:
> > I am looking for an option in pppd to achieve an exponential redial
> > holdoff time - I don't think it exists, but I think it would be useful.
>
> Pardon my ignorance, but if you're dialling, I'm guessing that you're
> providing for outgoing traffic, rather than incoming. So why not just
> dial on demand?
>
> If you are also hosting incoming mail, then your secondary MX should
> take care of any delay in delivery.
>
> Of course I could be missing something here...
>
Yep - The system is also a low traffic webserver for the Nannup Telecentre 
( http://www.nannuptc.org.au if you are at all interested), and I need to get 
in to it to do remote maintenance occasionally.

You don't need to tell me that's not good on a 33k modem uplink either :-)

I'm hoping to avoid the whole problem by going to two-way satellite in the 
future, but I'm still waiting for Westnet to announce it's HiBIS [1] 
subsidised satellite broadband for us in the bush.

Steve

[1] http://www.telinfo.gov.au/HiBIS%20page.htm

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