Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 13:08:45 +0200 From: Marcus Collins <marcus@writeclick.co.za> To: Remington <madriax@garlic.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Userland PPP and "timeout 180" options Message-ID: <20020206130843.J65304@davinci.writeclick.co.za> In-Reply-To: <000101c1aeed$6355e3e0$89038bd8@blah>; from madriax@garlic.com on Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 01:05:00AM -0800 References: <000101c1aeed$6355e3e0$89038bd8@blah>
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On Wed, 6 Feb 2002 at 01:05:00 -0800, Remington wrote: > I have plans to finally set Xwindows on my machine, and the > src+dependency list is huge. Im connected to the net via 56k. I have > concerns about getting knocked off in the middle of a compile and thus > cutting off my download of another dependency. I heard the the "timeout > 180" in the /etc/ppp/ppp.conf file is a purely cosmetic line. Is this > true? And if so how can I keep my connection alive? Perhaps someone else can confirm whether user-ppp's timeout option is cosmetic? AFAIK, this is not the case, and the man page indicates that it works as expected, except in -ddial and -dedicated modes. At any rate, just make sure you keep some activity over the connection. E.g: $ while /usr/bin/true; do ping -c 1 some.host.com; sleep 300; done will ping the specified host every five minutes. If you do this, make sure you specify '-c 1' to send only one packet! You can ping the other side of your connection -- use ifconfig -L ppp0 (or tun0, or whatever) to check the IP address on the other side of your link. Alternatively, just use 'make fetch-recursive' to fetch all the sources, and compile at your leisure. Cheers! -- Marcus To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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