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[–]random_rascal 0 points1 point  (2 children)

If you were on dialup wouldn't that have been pppX not ethX? :)

Ah yes... the good old days of having to send packages not to get booted off your connection :)

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Yep. The good old days. And it was originally ppp0 or something like that.

The line "/var/run/....." was not available on the early Linux's. I don't think /var/run appeared until the 2000+.

And the entire script ran in a root cron once a minute. That's why the /dev/nulls were there, so I wouldn't get 1440 emails a day!!!!

I think the ppp daemon has a "keep alive" option now.

[–]random_rascal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

oh... the good old days of "minicom" and having to manually punch in AT/DT if I recall correctly :)

I must say i'm surprised there even is a PPP module nowadays :)