One way to stop ISP timeout: put in /etc/crontab:
3,18,33,58 * * * * root ping -c 4 xxx.yyy.zzz.aaa &> /dev/null where xxx.yyy.zzz.aaa is a machine belonging to your ISP (e.g. dns.ISP.com or www.ISP.com) thus if timeout is more than 15 minutes your machine will stay online Of course you should try "ping -c 4 xxx.yyy.zzz.aaa" to make sure it works and is not filtered out or anything like that - so you may have to change it to some other command if icmp is filtered out of your connection from you to your ISP I guess some ISP's may ignore icmp packets when calculating timeouts, in which case you will have to run some other command that accesses the external net (e.g. "wget http://www.ISP.com/SomeVerySmallPageOrFile";) -Cheers -Andrew -- MS ... if only he hadn't been hang gliding! > wvdial is another program to dial to ISP. > > Balamurgam.T > Network Engineer..India >> Can you tell me of some programs that I can use to accomplish this? >> >> Mike >> >> On Sat, 13 Oct 2001 22:22:26 -0400 >> "Michael Klama" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> There can be another factor.Some isp's do kick you out if the >> connection is inactive,which is common.Some people use a stay alive >> application >> That just pings a server every now and then to fool the isp in >> beleiving you're using the connection. >> >> best regards >> richard >> >> > This has also been posted on the ppp list but answers are hard to >> > come > by >> on >> > that list. >> > >> > Can someone please help me with a problem I am having with my dialup >> > shutting down every night? I manually start my internet dialer and >> > use > it >> > all day and then leave the server on all night and when we try to > connect >> > the next day, we have no access! When I bring the dialer up to > reconnect >> > (using KDE by the way), it says that kppp is already being used. I >> > then have to restart the service in order to get it to work. Could >> > someone please shed some light my way? >> > >> > Mike _______________________________________________ Seawolf-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list
