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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.caldera.com!enews.sgi.com!news.mathworks.com!news-peer.sprintlink.net!sprint!news-pull.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-chi-13.sprintlink.net!gol2!usenet From: Kurt@pinboard.com (Kurt Keller) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How to keep ISP from killing ppp connection Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 18:04:39 GMT Organization: PINBOARD Lines: 18 Message-ID: <335e4d9a.2938981@202.243.48.5> References: <335CC5C4.FDEFA390@cabl.com> <5jiskp$krf@ui-gate.utell.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: yokohama-95-066.gol.com X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.1/16.230 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39613 > In article <335CC5C4.FDEFA390@cabl.com>, > Rick Goldeck <webmaster@cabl.com> writes: > > I'm paying for a dedicated dialup line from my ISP, but > > they timeout ALL accounts after 15 mins. of inactivity. We should change our setups. I use ppp+packetAlias 1.9. Cron jobs dial out for e-mail and other stuff once late at night and once early in the morning. But sometimes it happens that the timeout does not work and the connection is not ended. Happened again today and by the time I noticed, I had already lost about US$ 100 in telephone charges. :-( Does anybody know a _reliable_ way to terminate a connection (sometimes telnetting into ppp and issuing a 'close' does not even help). Kurt -- Kurt@pinboard.com http://www.pinboard.com/ business http://www.pinboard.com/kurt/ private