How to avoid booting PC to reconnect broadband

[Peter Ulrich Kruppa]

On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, Stephen Liu wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> FreeBSD 5.2
> ADSL, pppoe
> Connection: via ADSL modem
>
> If broadband connection dies accidentally due to unsecured plug how to
> re-activate it avoiding rebooting PC.  Occasionally re-securing the plug and
> waiting for a while the broadband connection will reactivate automatically.
ppp comes with an option -ddial which will make it restore a
connection immediately. For more information have a look at
# man ppp

Regards,

Uli.


>
> kindly advise.  TIA
>
> B.R.
> Stephen Liu
>
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