Or you could do something different....
(I am assuming you have a dial-up ISP, right?)
What I did was take advantage of STN's "dial-on-demand" capability -
whenever I needed to use the internet from any machine on my network, it
would pick up the phone, do what I wanted, and hang up when I was
finished.
BTW - as telephone time is expensive (not only to you for making the
call, but for them to mantain the CO equipment, and the RADIUS servers,
etc. - they pay the phone company (companies) for co-locating equipment)
and they cannot keep unlimited numbers of lines - many ISP's do this.
(every dial-up ISP I have ever worked with, has this set up...)
Dial-on-demand gives you the best of both worlds - it's there when you
need it, and you do not tie up a phone line when it is not.
Jim
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Given that there is room on the diskette or that I install STN on a HD
> is there some simple way to add/start a background process of my own on
> the STN box? I am quite a novice to linux administration etc and know
> nothing about the specific distribution used bu STN.
>
> I have a really boring ISP that disconect you after som time of
> inactivity and then you are forced to log-on using a hard to remember
> name/password selected by them :-( and to work-around this I want to use
>
> a small keep-alive program that should run on the external interface.
>
> Any sugestions about how to go about this?
>
> Regards
> Magnus
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