From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from moose.erie.net([208.138.204.11]) (2492 bytes) by braille.uwo.ca via smail with P:esmtp/D:aliases/T:pipe (sender: ) id for ; Wed, 5 Jul 2000 20:34:38 -0400 (EDT) (Smail-3.2.0.102 1998-Aug-2 #2 built 1999-Sep-5) Received: from jscp.yi.org (dap-208-166-66-160.erie-tnt-1.pa.erie.net [208.166.66.160]) by moose.erie.net (8.9.2/8.9.1) with ESMTP id UAA04903 for ; Wed, 5 Jul 2000 20:28:58 -0400 (EDT) X-Envelope-To: Received: from jacobs (helo=localhost) by jscp.yi.org with local-esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 139zk3-0003lt-00 for ; Wed, 05 Jul 2000 20:42:11 -0400 Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 20:42:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Jacob Schmude X-Sender: jacobs@jscp.yi.org 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: Hi No, sorry. Perhaps there is on slackware, but debian's ip-up script has a different design. All it does is run things in ip-up.d and there's nothing there to keep ppp alive. I'm going to try one of these dynamic dns services, specifically yi.org. That's why I want it to be kept alive. On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Charles Hallenbeck wrote: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >