What are the most tenacious settings for smpppd and pppoe? I have a home server that I want up 24/7 If the pppoe internet connection drops out I want it to re-connect. If that fails I want it to keep trying. Waiting a minute or 5 between tries is no problem, but I want it to keep trying forever. key files are: /etc/ppp/options /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-dsl0 /etc/sysconfig/network/providers/provider0 Thanks for any tips, michaelj -- Michael James michael.james@csiro.au System Administrator voice: 02 6246 5040 CSIRO Bioinformatics Facility fax: 02 6246 5166 Internet Explorer is fine for downloading Firefox, but after that....