From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from orion.sas.upenn.edu(ORION.SAS.UPENN.EDU[165.123.26.31]) (1726 bytes) by braille.uwo.ca via smail with P:esmtp/D:aliases/T:pipe (sender: ) id for ; Wed, 5 Jul 2000 20:49:27 -0400 (EDT) (Smail-3.2.0.102 1998-Aug-2 #2 built 1999-Sep-5) Received: from wang (DIALIN0440.UPENN.EDU [128.91.17.184]) by orion.sas.upenn.edu (8.10.1/8.10.1/SAS.05) with SMTP id e660nUs12378 for ; Wed, 5 Jul 2000 20:49:30 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <005301bfe6fd$35251400$d2105b80@wang> From: "Victor Tsaran" To: References: Subject: Re: keeping PPP alive Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 20:45:51 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4029.2901 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4029.2901 List-Id: You probably have to keep traffic going. I don't think there is any other trick. Regards, Vic ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jacob Schmude" To: Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 5:12 PM Subject: keeping PPP alive > Hi > Does anyone know how to keep ppp from timing out? Actually, it's > my provider doing this, but I want to keep the net connection alive. I'm > not looking for a reconnect automatically after disconnect option, I > already know how to do that. What I want is to somehow send or get > something every so often so the ISP doesn't think I'm idle. Is there any > way besides running fetchmail in daemon mode to do this? > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup