Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 18:11:47 -0500 (EST) From: wb2oyc@cyberenet.net To: Burton Sampley <burton@bsampley.vip.best.com> Cc: Nat Low <natlow@empnet.com>, RPD <zula@webbernet.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Automatic re-dial Message-ID: <XFMail.970228181513.wb2oyc@cyberenet.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970227172703.409B-100000@bsampley.vip.best.com>
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On 22:32:11 Burton Sampley wrote: >>On Thu, 27 Feb 1997, Nat Low wrote: > >> To keep my connection established, I have a cron job that checks my mail >> every 10 minutes with popclient. If you setup ppp or pppd to dial on >> demand, this checking of mail will cause the connection to re-open if it >> gets dropped. The max down-time would be 10 minutes, but you could make >> the cron job run at lesser intervals. > Actually, its even easier than that! The PPP options file has a parameter that will generate an LCP echo request at intervals you can set. Just uncomment it and set the value you like. The options file I have selects a value of 30 se c. All you need to do is delete the '#' on that line to turn it on! This causes th e LCP process (part of PPP) to send an echo request every 30 sec, and if your provider sees it, he'll send back a packet. Keeps the line up nicely, thank you >. Paul >> > there is a disconnection. >> >
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