Re: Any PPP-connection keeping utility ?

1997-01-07 Thread Daniel Stringfield
On Mon, 6 Jan 1997, Lawrence Chim wrote: I put this in my /etc/ppp/ip-up script: ping -i 120 $5 /dev/null 21 ^ | what is it? not found in man page That is the remote IP. $5 is the fifth command line variable when ip-up is called. It

Any PPP-connection keeping utility ?

1997-01-06 Thread Zenon Fortuna
I would like to keep my PPP connection busy even during the time, when I don't use it. Otherwise my ISP will log-me-off after a couple of idle minutes. A work around is to telnet to any Internet sites and start a loop (in my case in csh): % while 1 sleep 120 date

Re: Any PPP-connection keeping utility ?

1997-01-06 Thread Ryan Shaw
On Sun, 5 Jan 1997, Zenon Fortuna wrote: I would like to keep my PPP connection busy even during the time, when I don't use it. Otherwise my ISP will log-me-off after a couple of idle minutes. A work around is to telnet to any Internet sites and start a loop (in my case in csh): you could

Re: Any PPP-connection keeping utility ?

1997-01-06 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Sun, 5 Jan 1997, Zenon Fortuna wrote: I would like to keep my PPP connection busy even during the time, when I don't use it. Otherwise my ISP will log-me-off after a couple of idle minutes. This works but I would prefer something more *automatic*, i.e. which will work without my explicit

Re: Any PPP-connection keeping utility ?

1997-01-06 Thread Lawrence Chim
I put this in my /etc/ppp/ip-up script: ping -i 120 $5 /dev/null 21 ^ | what is it? not found in man page lawrence, -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL

Re: Any PPP-connection keeping utility ?

1997-01-06 Thread Pete Templin
On Sun, 5 Jan 1997, Zenon Fortuna wrote: I would like to keep my PPP connection busy even during the time, when I don't use it. Otherwise my ISP will log-me-off after a couple of idle minutes. I had a script back when I ran Slackware which tidied up the ppp launching process. It would

Re: Any PPP-connection keeping utility ?

1997-01-06 Thread Ioannis Tambouras
On Mon, 6 Jan 1997, Lawrence Chim wrote: I put this in my /etc/ppp/ip-up script: ping -i 120 $5 /dev/null 21 ^ | what is it? not found in man page The $5 represents the ip address on the isp side. From the /etc/ppp/ip-up

Re: Any PPP-connection keeping utility ?

1997-01-06 Thread Rick Macdonald
Lawrence Chim wrote: I put this in my /etc/ppp/ip-up script: ping -i 120 $5 /dev/null 21 ^ | what is it? not found in man page Sorry, you probably looked at the wrong man page. From man pppd: /etc/ppp/ip-up A program