From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 6 3:13:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp02.iafrica.com (smtp02.iafrica.com [196.7.0.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5004F37B42A for ; Wed, 6 Feb 2002 03:13:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from 196-31-87-53.nwl.dial.uunet.co.za ([196.31.87.53] helo=galileo.writeclick.co.za) by smtp02.iafrica.com with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 16YQ0T-000Md0-00; Wed, 06 Feb 2002 13:12:54 +0200 Received: from [192.168.0.3] (helo=davinci.writeclick.co.za) by galileo.writeclick.co.za with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1) id 16YPwV-000Mq3-00; Wed, 06 Feb 2002 13:08:47 +0200 Received: from marcus by davinci.writeclick.co.za with local (Exim 3.952 #1) id 16YPwT-0002Tl-00; Wed, 06 Feb 2002 13:08:45 +0200 Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 13:08:45 +0200 From: Marcus Collins To: Remington Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Userland PPP and "timeout 180" options Message-ID: <20020206130843.J65304@davinci.writeclick.co.za> References: <000101c1aeed$6355e3e0$89038bd8@blah> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <000101c1aeed$6355e3e0$89038bd8@blah>; from madriax@garlic.com on Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 01:05:00AM -0800 Organisation: writeclick productions X-URL: http://www.writeclick.co.za/ 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 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