You probably have to keep traffic going. I don't think there is any other trick. Regards, Vic ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jacob Schmude" <jacobs@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 5:12 PM Subject: keeping PPP alive > 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