From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail1.greenbaynet.com([208.178.204.36]) (1922 bytes) by braille.uwo.ca via smail with P:esmtp/D:aliases/T:pipe (sender: ) id for ; Thu, 6 Jul 2000 00:02:59 -0400 (EDT) (Smail-3.2.0.102 1998-Aug-2 #2 built 1999-Sep-5) Received: from hardb (ras17-088.greenbaynet.com [208.49.186.88]) by mail1.greenbaynet.com (8.9.3/8.8.7) with SMTP id WAA09131 for ; Wed, 5 Jul 2000 22:59:32 -0500 Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.20000705230418.007a2100@greenbaynet.com> X-Sender: bharding@greenbaynet.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 23:04:18 -0500 To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca From: brent harding Subject: Re: keeping PPP alive In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" List-Id: Probably using a ping of an outside address on a crontab job will maybe do the trick, but the isp may need a certain amount of activity. Fetchmail in daemon mode does about the same approach, it keeps the connection up, I was thinking about using ping to do it, wonder if doing a telnet to a host that responds connection refused will do it, or telnet to an invalid domain every few minutes. Once ping is started, it keeps going until you hit ctrl-c, but when it goes to the background, as cron would do, it's hard to kill it. At 08:12 PM 7/5/00 -0400, you wrote: >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 > >