Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 23:31:23 -0400 From: "Matthew Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> To: "Guilherme Oliveira" <guilherme@nortenet.pt>, "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: My modem disconnect after some min. ! Message-ID: <002301c0d513$dcbde020$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> References: <3AF3608D.F48EE651@nortenet.pt>
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> Hi ! > > I'm configuring my first FreeBSD 4.2 and everytime I connect to my ISP > with my 56k and if it's not used during a few minutes, my connection > goes down. > > I read handbook, faq and man and I don't find anything. > > I have tryed 'set timeout 0' and nothing ... Even you you can tell the ppp client to never drop connections due to inactivity, your ISP can still terminate your connection as per their inactivity rules. My ISP will disconnect me after 5 minutes of inactivity. In order to keep a connection up, you need to run a program from cron that will ping something in the outside world which will force the connection to stay up. Note that by doing this, you may be violating some of the terms of your agreement (ie, "you will only remain connected to the service while using the service; all attempts to sustain a connection which is otherwise active constitute a breach of this agreement."), and could result in getting your account suspended. -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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