From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 5 11: 5: 1 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.mailix.net (smtp.mailix.net [216.148.213.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A04F137B40E for ; Sun, 5 May 2002 11:04:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [216.164.225.145] (helo=fritz) by smtp.mailix.net with asmtp (Exim 4.01) id 174QNQ-00019A-00; Sun, 05 May 2002 11:04:52 -0700 Message-ID: <00b801c1f478$a4f5a760$0301a8c0@uminafamily.com> From: "Christopher J. Umina" To: , "Lord Raiden" References: <4.2.0.58.20020505135842.009a8a60@pop.netzero.net> Subject: Re: demand dial DSL Date: Sun, 5 May 2002 14:05:53 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Just ping a remote system constantly. Pick one, like www.yahoo.com haha That should keep it alive.. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lord Raiden" To: Sent: Sunday, May 05, 2002 11:07 AM Subject: demand dial DSL > Ok, I just got handed a weird one (and on a Sunday of all days no less) > today and I'm curious of an answer. I've got a remote office that is > running on DSL and the ISP just told us we have to switch over to the new > DSL modem or else. So, we switched. (like I'm gonna argue. I've got > enough to worry about this week. hehe) Now here's something that's > interesting. The new DSL modem refuses all inbound connections unless > there is an active connection behind the modem. AKA, someone on our lan > has to be surfing the net or the connection goes dead inbound. Outbound is > fine. The connection wakes up instantly when someone sends data across the > modem and during that time we can connect to our remote lan and do what we > want. But after 15 minutes of no traffic in or out it goes numb again and > you can't get any data past the modem. Heck, it's not even pingable. > > I'm thinking about bugging our ISP for that dsl connection and figure out > why it's doing that, but I wanted to see if there was just something simple > that I could do instead to keep it from doing that. IF it's a simple 2 > second fix that would work great. The new modem they stuck us with is a > 3com Sdsl modem slaved into a kingston DSL router with a Fbsd file and > remote mail server behind it. IT's not a big thing, but suggestions are > welcome. > > I was thinking about having Cron ping something remotely every 10 minutes > or so with a single ping to make sure the connection never shuts down. :) > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message