pppd does not persist enough, gives up after 10 attempts

[John Kennedy]

tom pollerman wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Feb 2004 20:59:49 -0600
> "Rodolfo J. Paiz" <rpaiz at simpaticus.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Hi!
>>
>>Hopefully someone has a clue-by-four with which to hit me on this
>>one. I have an RHL-9 box (Shrike) with all updates and ppp-2.4.1-10
>>installed. This box is properly configured to dial out to my ISP on
>>an ISDN line (external modem via serial port), and works beautifully
>>in all ways but one: if pppd experiences 10 hang-ups, it exits and
>>does not restart. 



>  Rodolfo,
> 
>         Have you tried:
> 
>              maxfail 0
> 
> in your /etc/ppp/options file. I believe it defaults to 10 failed
> connections - even if you have the 'persist' option specified.
>    You may also want to check out:
> 
>                        http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/PPP-HOWTO/x582.html
> 
> and have init 'respawn' pppd if it should stop responding
>              Best, 
>                    Tom

Just adding my experiences with this problem.   I've had this problem 
for a long time with no solution...

so I tried the 'maxfail 0'  and the dialup/gateway box has been working 
perfectly for about two days now.

It used to drop the ppp0 interface about every twenty minutes or so [I 
didn't realize it was the number redials it was counting].  It appears 
to be a perfect fix.

I do have a question.  Should I also use the 2nd fix suggested above by 
Tom.... ie
  setting pppd to automatically monitor and respawn itself
if the ppp0 interface goes down ?

Or would that be unnecessary overkill ?

Thanks guys for coming up with this fix... it made my day!!!!

John Kennedy