nat---ipmasq

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Vram Wrote: 
> Hi

> 

> 

> I am on a dial-up.

> 

> 

> Every four hours my ISP disconnects me..

> 

> I have persist so my modem just redials.

> 

> But, for some reason nat or ipmasq goes down and I have to manually

> restart that...

> 

> That is the problem.....

> 

> I would write a script to fix it...

> 

> But, what would I check to see if nat/ipmasq is running?

> 

> The /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward bit stays set?

> 

> I don't know what else to check...

> 

> Any ideas????

> 

> TIA

> 

> Vram

> 

> 

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If you are using ppp to connect, you can use the demand option to dial
on demand.  This way when you get disconnected, it will redial.  Also,
upon connection scripts in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ get run.  Perhaps that is
where you want to restart ipmasq?


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azz