No, I am actually having a cable modem but before you are allowed to connect
externally (to the internet as oposed to the ISPs internal net) you must
"login" using a web-page on the ISPs internal net using a long and hard to
rememeber user-id and password (that you can't change).
After some ten minutes of inactivity you loose your right to connect
externaly and must "login" again :-(
This really gives that I have a "permanent" connection but only to the ISPs
internal net....
This is why I want to keep the connection up by sending a "ping" or dummy
http request etc about every seven minutes and since I would like to only
have the STN box running 24-7 and all other machines on or off as I please
it would be nice to add this litle feature to it.
Regards
Magnus
>From: Jim Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: RE: [STN] Adding an app?
>Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 18:13:41 -0800
>
>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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