Hi No, sorry. Perhaps there is on slackware, but debian's ip-up script has a different design. All it does is run things in ip-up.d and there's nothing there to keep ppp alive. I'm going to try one of these dynamic dns services, specifically yi.org. That's why I want it to be kept alive. On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Charles Hallenbeck wrote: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
