[SLE] PPPD and making it re-establish a call every 2 hours but only between certain hours
Sean Rima wrote:
I want my SuSE box to remain on the net between midnight and 7am only. Anyone know of a way of getting PPPD to do this and also to re connect after a dropped line.
Hello Sean I am using diald to make my connections and initiate pppd. This gives a lot of config options for calling and line "hogging". It can do precisely what you want. Check the dialrules options. For example here in the Netherlands analogue telephone services are charged by periods. There is a startup fee and a fee billed for the next 4 minutes during the daytime and 8 minutes evening/night and weekends. My rules make diald hangup when the link is idle and just before a new period is billed. So the link stays up as long as possible in idle conditions for the same cost. All kinds of config is possible. SuSE did support diald very well until 6.1 though, after that they dropped it so you have to configure the lot manually. But it works well for me. BB, Arjen -- Sell what you use, use what you sell. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
Hi Arjen! On Wed, 08 Mar 2000, Arjen Runsink wrote:
Sean Rima wrote:
I want my SuSE box to remain on the net between midnight and 7am only. Anyone know of a way of getting PPPD to do this and also to re connect after a dropped line.
Hello Sean
I am using diald to make my connections and initiate pppd. This gives a lot of config options for calling and line "hogging". It can do precisely what you want. Check the dialrules options.
For example here in the Netherlands analogue telephone services are charged by periods. There is a startup fee and a fee billed for the next 4 minutes during the daytime and 8 minutes evening/night and weekends.
My rules make diald hangup when the link is idle and just before a new period is billed. So the link stays up as long as possible in idle conditions for the same cost.
All kinds of config is possible.
SuSE did support diald very well until 6.1 though, after that they dropped it so you have to configure the lot manually.
But it works well for me.
Thanks for the tip, I prefer PPPD over WVdial so I will look into this :) Sean -- Linux User: #124682 ICQ: 679813 My Current Uptime is 7d, 8h and 2m on Linux 2.2.13 It said "Needs Windows 95 or better". So I installed Linux... <HR> <UL> <LI>application/pgp-signature attachment: stored </UL> -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
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