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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
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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.