On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 09:09:29PM -0600, Matthew W. Roberts wrote: > I've got /etc/ppp/ppp_on_boot so that my machine connects immediately > on boot-up. However, the connection has been going down after a few > minutes. The last few lines of ppp.log show this: > > Feb 16 20:41:27 roberts pppd[149]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x23 magic=0xc45a5c32] > Feb 16 20:41:43 roberts pppd[149]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x24 magic=0xbc2ead1] > Feb 16 20:41:59 roberts pppd[149]: Hangup (SIGHUP) > Feb 16 20:41:59 roberts pppd[149]: Modem hangup > Feb 16 20:41:59 roberts pppd[149]: Connection terminated. > Feb 16 20:41:59 roberts pppd[149]: Exit. > > I'm not sure what that means. It's almost like the connection is > terminated after running scripts in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d . I searched Deja > and the web but could not find any documentation on how this is supposed > to work.
most isps drop your connection if its idle for more then a few minutes (10 - 15 are popular numbers) best way to deal with that is setup something that causes traffic at regular intervals less then that of your isp's timeout, my guess is you have a mail account there, so setting up fetchmail to get mail from that account every 5 minutes should do the trick. works for me, except the modem still hangs up every 10 hours precisly... (not sure that is the ISP or this flaky modem..) -- Ethan Benson
