From bffc09ca0f9081340e51a3b8de865f549ae93c2c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 05:57:19 +0000
Subject: add RETRYCONNECT option for ppp-watch

---
 src/ppp-watch.c | 5 +++++
 sysconfig.txt   | 6 ++++++
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/ppp-watch.c b/src/ppp-watch.c
index be241fef..a264dd90 100644
--- a/src/ppp-watch.c
+++ b/src/ppp-watch.c
@@ -617,6 +617,11 @@ main(int argc, char **argv) {
 		break;
 	    }
 
+            /* We default to retrying the connect phase for backward compatibility. */
+	    if ((WEXITSTATUS(status) == 8) && !svTrueValue(ifcfg, "RETRYCONNECT", 1)) {
+                cleanExit(WEXITSTATUS(status));
+            }
+
 	    if ((WEXITSTATUS(status) == 8) ||
 	        !connectedOnce || svTrueValue(ifcfg, "PERSIST", 0)) {
 		temp = svGetValue(ifcfg, "RETRYTIMEOUT");
diff --git a/sysconfig.txt b/sysconfig.txt
index 07fc0ed2..8460fc26 100644
--- a/sysconfig.txt
+++ b/sysconfig.txt
@@ -429,6 +429,12 @@ Files in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/
     RETRYTIMEOUT=<number of seconds, default currently 60>
       (time to wait before re-attempting to establish a connection
       after a previous attempt fails.)
+    RETRYCONNECT=yes|no (defaults to yes)
+      If this is yes, then we will re-run pppd if it exits with a 
+      "connect script failed" status.  Otherwise, only one attempt
+      is made to bring up the connection.  Note that some connect
+      scripts (for example, wvdial) might do their own retries (such
+      as BUSY or NO DIALTONE conditions).
       
 /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/chat-<interface-name>:
 
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