Probably using a ping of an outside address on a crontab job will maybe do the trick, but the isp may need a certain amount of activity. Fetchmail in daemon mode does about the same approach, it keeps the connection up, I was thinking about using ping to do it, wonder if doing a telnet to a host that responds connection refused will do it, or telnet to an invalid domain every few minutes. Once ping is started, it keeps going until you hit ctrl-c, but when it goes to the background, as cron would do, it's hard to kill it. At 08:12 PM 7/5/00 -0400, you 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 > >
