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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news-peer.sprintlink.net!sprint!news-pull.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.cyberenet.net!news From: Rick Goldeck <webmaster@cabl.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: How to keep ISP from killing ppp connection Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 10:05:56 -0400 Organization: The Cable Addicts Broadband Lounge Lines: 17 Message-ID: <335CC5C4.FDEFA390@cabl.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: goldcom.ppp.cyberenet.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.0b3 [en] (Win95; I) X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39523 I'm paying for a dedicated dialup line from my ISP, but they timeout ALL accounts after 15 mins. of inactivity. I've searched freebsd.org and the only solution found was to repeatedly ping somewhere on the net. Does anyone do anything a little more elegant? I noticed with ppp run with -auto option that Apache would cause a dialout every so often, and sendmail may do the same? Is there a setting to change one of these down to 15 mins. or so just to keep the connection alive? I know this effectively does the same thing as ping, but I'm a bit obsessive... Opinions on the "right" way to use ping for this would also be appreciated. Thanks.