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NAME="AEN582">9.15. Maintaining a permanent connection to the net with <EM
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>If you are fortunate enough to have a semi permanent connection to the net and
would like to have your machine automatically redial your PPP connection if it
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>Configure PPP such that it can be started by the <TT
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command:

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<EM
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>-detach</TT
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<TT
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>/etc/ppp/options</TT
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>/etc/inittab</TT
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>getty</EM
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This will cause the <EM
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<EM
>pppd</EM
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program and automatically restart it if it dies.</P
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