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Ashmath Khan wrote: > Its neither about PPP negotiation nor about separate invocation of pppd. > > As I mentioned its about retry mechanism or the algorithm or you can > call it the strategy employed to retry if things fail. > > For the normal retries if the retry interval is 30 secs and max retries is 5 ... > then the 1st retry is at 30 secs > 2nd at 60 secs > 3rd at 90 secs > > But I need it something like this: > 1st retry at 30 secs > 2nd retry at 120 secs > 3rd retry at 300 secs etc.. > > Hope its clear. thanks. Ashmath Khan wrote: > I want to consider all failure cases(at lcp, at chap etc), any > negotiation failure etc, for which pppd would retry with the server > from scratch. > Basically I don't pppd to retry after a failure but I want pppd to > exit, and then the retry will be done by my program by relaunching > pppd. is this possible ? maybe i need to keep the retries as zero ? > thanks. How about using the pppd "updetach" option, and using a script to invoke and retry pppd as desired? -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W <carlsonj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ppp" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html