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 at 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
