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From: brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: How to keep ISP from killing ppp connection
Date: 22 Apr 1997 17:31:05 GMT
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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In article <335CC5C4.FDEFA390@cabl.com>,
Rick Goldeck <webmaster@cabl.com> writes:
> 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.
There's a "-ddial" option to ppp in 2.2 & -current. It
re-establishes the connection immediately if it's down.
> Thanks.
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.org>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !