PPPoE equivalent?

[snowcrash+freebsd]

hi,

> I'm not sure there is, I've had a similar problem like this before,
> and I got around
> it by writing a simple script that would try and ping a local site 4
> times, and if no
> responses got back it would killall ppp and delete the default routes
> and tell ppp
> to reconnect. It worked quite well when put into cron to run at 1
> minute intervals.

i'm getting all this set up as well, and following this thread ...

(1) are not ppp.linkup & ppp.linkdown supposed to be the 'place' to
deal with this?

(2) could you share your simple script?

thanks!