From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mhonline.net(bandaid.mhonline.net[204.97.156.9]) (1688 bytes) by braille.uwo.ca via smail with P:smtp/D:aliases/T:pipe (sender: ) id for ; Wed, 5 Jul 2000 20:26:56 -0400 (EDT) (Smail-3.2.0.102 1998-Aug-2 #2 built 1999-Sep-5) Received: (qmail 19030 invoked from network); 6 Jul 2000 00:26:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO alb1-as5300-62-62.termserv.net) (209.23.41.62) by smtp.mhonline.net with SMTP; 6 Jul 2000 00:26:59 -0000 Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 20:27:01 -0400 (EDT) From: Charles Hallenbeck To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: keeping PPP alive In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII List-Id: Jacob - Look in your "ip-up" script in "/etc/ppp" - I seem to recall there are some lines commented out that will issue a ping every so often to do that. Chuck. On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Jacob Schmude 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 > My web site is http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh You can bring any calculator you like to the midterm, as long as it doesn't dim the lights when you turn it on. -- Hepler, Systems Design 182