Rob MacWilliams wrote: ... > My ISP has a 10 min. no activity timer once I am logged in and have > done something, so I just grab the mail every 9 min. Your ping should > work fine and grabbing the mail every 10 sec. is a little excessive. > If I were you I would contact your ISP and ask them to change the 10 > sec. timeout, it does seem a little unreasonable.
Has anyone suggested checking LCP-echo? -- I missed the beginning of this thread. /etc/ppp/options has LCP echo interval N and LCP echo failure M options which can cause this if your ISP doesn't reply to LCP-echoes. What happens is your pppd sends echo-requests every N seconds and expects replies. After M unanswered echo-requests pppd assumes remote end is down and terminates. Try commenting them out. -- Dimitri ------- This is the official notification that I do not wish to receive any unsolicited commercial e-mail, so don't try. Or else. (Solicited advertisements <huh?> and other such can be sent to emaziuk at curtin dot edu dot au) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
