Date: Sun, 5 May 2002 15:15:52 -0400 From: Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org> To: "Christopher J. Umina" <FJU@Fritzilldo.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Lord Raiden" <raiden23@netzero.net> Subject: Re: demand dial DSL Message-ID: <20020505191552.95091BA05@i8k.babbleon.org> In-Reply-To: <00b801c1f478$a4f5a760$0301a8c0@uminafamily.com> References: <4.2.0.58.20020505135842.009a8a60@pop.netzero.net> <00b801c1f478$a4f5a760$0301a8c0@uminafamily.com>
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On Sunday 05 May 2002 05:05 pm, Christopher J. Umina wrote:
| Just ping a remote system constantly. Pick one, like www.yahoo.com haha
| That should keep it alive..
Well, it would be pretty obnixous to ping yahoo, but seriously, since it's
the ISP that's broken why not just set up somebody to ping the ISP itself
every minute. And do bug 'em to ask why such a thing is necessary.
| ----- Original Message -----
| From: "Lord Raiden" <raiden23@netzero.net>
| To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
| 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.
| > :)
| >
| >
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