Does a host need to be specified to make it work? What if the host gets suspicious of why I'm pinging so often? At 08:40 PM 7/5/00 -0400, you wrote: >Jacob, > >I suppose you could ping something every five minutes or so. A >command such as "ping -s32 -i300 >/dev/null &" should do nicely. > >-- Dave -- > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >