On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 07:30:34AM +0200, Sebastian Dransfeld wrote:
-> On Sun, 4 Jun 2000, Alex V Flinsch wrote:
->
-> > idea 2 --
-> >
-> > do you really need to waste all that memory running netscape to get
-> > the url? From the above, you just need to hit some website every few minutes to
-> > have your dynamic ip assignment working. And I assume that news.com is not the
-> > real website that you need to hit, it's probablly something on dynamip.com. Why
-> > not try something like
-> >
-> > wget -O /dev/null http://www.news.com
-> >
-> > in your crontab instead?
->
-> Or use lynx.
->
-> seb
If all you need to do is keep your net connection alive, use ping
instead. It uses ICMP, which imposes much less traffic on the net than
HTTP.
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