On 2007-09-24, Danny Mayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > rasmus wrote: > >> On Sep 20, 3:30 pm, Steve Kostecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Is it possible that your PPPoE connection "shuts down" when it is >>> idle? Perhaps a keep-alive would help. >> >> I tried to set up a looping ntpdate -u yesterday morning but that has >> not seemed to help :/ My ISPs support forum is silent about this, I'm >> considering giving them a call.
Actually what you want to use for a keep alive is something like while [ 1 ]; do ping -c 2 your_isps_gateway; sleep NNN; done where NNN is a number of seconds a bit below the idle shut down time for your PPPoE connection. 600 might be reasonable. > First of all you cannot run ntpdate at the same time as ntpd. Also if > ntpdate doesn't work even when ntpd is not working you have a firewall > problem. What is the output of ntpdate? The problem we're chasing here is that the OP's ntpd sporadically becomes externally unreachable. Due to the use of PPPoE, IMHO. -- Steve Kostecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> NTP Public Services Project - http://support.ntp.org/ _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
