[svlug] new SBC/Yahoo promo for DSL - decent deal? Linux support?

[Rick Schultz]

On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Joe Buck wrote:

> I wind up going through a whole series of steps to get the connection
> re-established, such as power-cycling the modem, killing the
> adsl-connect process, and re-running /etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart to
> try to bring up the connection.

I've run into this as well.  After a bit of research, I found the
following seems to do the trick:
----
#!/bin/sh

( echo -n 'ppp lost:' ; date  ) >> /tmp/ppp-down.log
exec >> /tmp/ppp-down.log 2>&1
/sbin/ifconfig eth1 down
killall pppd
/sbin/ifconfig eth1 up
----

I slapped this into /etc/ppp/adsl-lost, and haven't had an outage (that
didn't recover by itself) since.  Just make sure your dyndns client runs
when it comes back up....


-rick