How to automatically reconnect ADSL connection

[Luc4]

Hi! Sometimes it happens that the carrier of my ADSL is lost, and so the connection. The carrier usually is on again in a few minutes, but I noticed with Kubuntu the connection is not re-estabilished. I have to manually do a sudo pon dsl-provider to have it back. This is very very bothering as Kubuntu is a NAT box so the connection is not available to all the NATted systems. Is this the normal behavior? Shouldn't the connection be re-estabilished automatically? I used to have Gentoo and with it this was automatic. Is there anything I can do?
Thanks!

[kevinc]

Re: How to automatically reconnect ADSL connection

Are you using network manager or wicd or something else?

Have you read this howto? http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3104329.0

wicd has settings for selecting various networks and for automatically re-connection

[Luc4]

Re: How to automatically reconnect ADSL connection

No, I'm only using the command line as I use the system via ssh. Isn't it possible to do this without any other application?
Thanks!

[kevinc]

Re: How to automatically reconnect ADSL connection

Using the command line, I use

sudo pppoeconf

but you need to be root.
This will ask for a name for the connection, your DSL connection name and password and then a few options about starting at boot and connecting now. I've found it quite reliable. If the connection drops and is not restarted, use

sudo pon dsl-provider

[Luc4]

Re: How to automatically reconnect ADSL connection

Yes, that is what I've done. But it seems its not reconnecting after the carrier disappears and is back again.

[marcopl]

Re: How to automatically reconnect ADSL connection

this has happened to me with ppoeconf. never got it resolved.

i have heard of some users writing a script that checks if ppp0 interface is up, if not it runs the adsl connect thingy again.