I posted a question a while back, and did nor receive any satisfactory answer. My setup: SuSE 8.1, Adsl via speedtouch usb, smppd (kinternet) My problem: as the following log shows, my ISP (skynet.be) resets the connection every 2160.2 minutes. This is a problem, since I have a personal webserver. How do I convince pppd to reconnect automatically? Solution: insert the following lines into /etc/sysconfig/network/providers/dsl-provider0 AUTO_RECONNECT="yes" AUTO_RECONNECT_DELAY="1" AUTO_RECONNECT_EXITS="0" Problem 2: it does not work, and I have to reconnect manually. thanks FX Appendix: my kinternet logfile, showing connection resets. SuSE Meta pppd (smpppd), Version 0.78 on vertigo. wwwoffle not is running Selection of interface/provider "dsl0"/"DSL provider" succeeded. Starting connection. (2003-02-03 15:24:58 CET) pppd: Plugin pppoatm.so loaded. pppd: PPPoATM plugin_init pppd: Plugin passwordfd.so loaded. pppd: PPPoATM setdevname - remove unwanted options pppd: PPPoATM setdevname_pppoatm - SUCCESS:8.35 pppd: Using interface ppp0 pppd: Couldn't increase MTU to 1500 pppd: Couldn't increase MRU to 1500 pppd: local IP address 192.168.99.1 pppd: remote IP address 192.168.99.99 pppd: Starting link Establishing connection due to activity. pppd: Connect: ppp0 <--> 8.35 pppd: Remote message: CHAP authentication success, unit 16109 pppd: Local IP address changed to 80.200.191.153 pppd: Remote IP address changed to 80.200.191.1 pppd: Script /etc/ppp/ip-up finished (pid 9706), status = 0x0 We are connected. (2003-02-03 15:25:08 CET) pppd: LCP terminated by peer pppd: Script /etc/ppp/ip-down finished (pid 8893), status = 0x0 We are disconnected. (2003-02-05 03:25:13 CET) pppd: Connection terminated. pppd: Connect time 2160.2 minutes. pppd: Sent 61789638 bytes, received 661696871 bytes. pppd: Fatal signal 11 pppd died: (exit code 127) Starting connection. (2003-02-05 07:17:51 CET) pppd: Plugin pppoatm.so loaded. pppd: PPPoATM plugin_init pppd: Plugin passwordfd.so loaded. pppd: PPPoATM setdevname - remove unwanted options pppd: PPPoATM setdevname_pppoatm - SUCCESS:8.35 pppd: Using interface ppp0 pppd: Couldn't increase MTU to 1500 pppd: Couldn't increase MRU to 1500 pppd: local IP address 192.168.99.1 pppd: remote IP address 192.168.99.99 pppd: Starting link Establishing connection due to activity. pppd: Connect: ppp0 <--> 8.35 pppd: Remote message: CHAP authentication success, unit 3938 pppd: Local IP address changed to 217.136.132.21 pppd: Remote IP address changed to 217.136.132.1 pppd: Script /etc/ppp/ip-up finished (pid 13051), status = 0x0 We are connected. (2003-02-05 07:18:33 CET) pppd: LCP terminated by peer pppd: Script /etc/ppp/ip-down finished (pid 11840), status = 0x0 We are disconnected. (2003-02-06 19:18:32 CET) pppd: Connection terminated. pppd: Connect time 2160.1 minutes. pppd: Sent 20342950 bytes, received 173826459 bytes. pppd: Fatal signal 11 pppd died: (exit code 127) Starting connection. (2003-02-06 19:54:12 CET) pppd: Plugin pppoatm.so loaded. pppd: PPPoATM plugin_init pppd: Plugin passwordfd.so loaded. pppd: PPPoATM setdevname - remove unwanted options pppd: PPPoATM setdevname_pppoatm - SUCCESS:8.35 pppd: Using interface ppp0 pppd: Couldn't increase MTU to 1500 pppd: Couldn't increase MRU to 1500 pppd: local IP address 192.168.99.1 pppd: remote IP address 192.168.99.99 pppd: Starting link Establishing connection due to activity. pppd: Connect: ppp0 <--> 8.35 pppd: Remote message: CHAP authentication success, unit 19543 pppd: Local IP address changed to 80.200.96.214 pppd: Remote IP address changed to 80.200.96.1 pppd: Script /etc/ppp/ip-up finished (pid 13052), status = 0x0 We are connected. (2003-02-06 19:54:27 CET) pppd: LCP terminated by peer pppd: Connection terminated. pppd: Connect time 2160.1 minutes. pppd: Sent 26719334 bytes, received 220928380 bytes. pppd: Fatal signal 11 We are disconnected. (2003-02-08 07:54:26 CET) pppd died: (exit code 127) Starting connection. (2003-02-08 08:16:53 CET) pppd: Plugin pppoatm.so loaded. pppd: PPPoATM plugin_init pppd: Plugin passwordfd.so loaded. pppd: PPPoATM setdevname - remove unwanted options pppd: PPPoATM setdevname_pppoatm - SUCCESS:8.35 pppd: Using interface ppp0 pppd: Couldn't increase MTU to 1500 pppd: Couldn't increase MRU to 1500 pppd: local IP address 192.168.99.1 pppd: remote IP address 192.168.99.99 pppd: Starting link Establishing connection due to activity. pppd: Connect: ppp0 <--> 8.35 pppd: Remote message: CHAP authentication success, unit 5012 pppd: Local IP address changed to 217.136.178.159 pppd: Remote IP address changed to 217.136.178.1 pppd: Script /etc/ppp/ip-up finished (pid 12999), status = 0x0 We are connected. (2003-02-08 08:17:06 CET) pppd: LCP terminated by peer pppd: Script /etc/ppp/ip-down finished (pid 12205), status = 0x0 We are disconnected. (2003-02-09 20:17:05 CET) pppd: Connection terminated. pppd: Connect time 2160.1 minutes. pppd: Sent 40592968 bytes, received 1073451843 bytes. pppd: Fatal signal 11 pppd died: (exit code 127) Starting connection. (2003-02-09 21:28:36 CET) pppd: Plugin pppoatm.so loaded. pppd: PPPoATM plugin_init pppd: Plugin passwordfd.so loaded. pppd: PPPoATM setdevname - remove unwanted options pppd: PPPoATM setdevname_pppoatm - SUCCESS:8.35 pppd: Using interface ppp0 pppd: Couldn't increase MTU to 1500 pppd: Couldn't increase MRU to 1500 pppd: local IP address 192.168.99.1 pppd: remote IP address 192.168.99.99 pppd: Starting link Establishing connection due to activity. pppd: Connect: ppp0 <--> 8.35 pppd: Remote message: CHAP authentication success, unit 5115 pppd: Local IP address changed to 217.136.134.96 pppd: Remote IP address changed to 217.136.134.1 pppd: Script /etc/ppp/ip-up finished (pid 13944), status = 0x0 We are connected. 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