Re: modem hang up

1997-06-22 Thread W Paul Mills
A policy against using ping once every 8 minutes and 20 seconds. I have never heard of such a thing. I have never had one complain. However it is not to nice to tie up your providers dialup lines for extended periods when you are not using it. The only time I have done this is when using providers

Re: modem hang up

1997-06-21 Thread John Goerzen
Many ISPs have policy against such a thing, so be careful before you do it. Udjat -Whoo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ping you host once in a while. > > ping -i 500 xyz.com > /dev/null & > > see ping man page. > > > On Sat, 21 Jun 1997, A.D.Y. Cheng wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > > I am runn

Re: modem hang up

1997-06-21 Thread John Goerzen
Your ISP is probably the one that is doing this, not Linux. "A.D.Y. Cheng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello all, > > I am running PPP connecting to my ISP. However, after connecting, if I > leave the connection idle for about half an hour, the modem will hang up > itself which I do not really

Re: modem hang up

1997-06-21 Thread Udjat -Whoo
Ping you host once in a while. ping -i 500 xyz.com > /dev/null & see ping man page. On Sat, 21 Jun 1997, A.D.Y. Cheng wrote: > Hello all, > > I am running PPP connecting to my ISP. However, after connecting, if I > leave the connection idle for about half an hour, the modem will hang up > i

modem hang up

1997-06-21 Thread A.D.Y. Cheng
Hello all, I am running PPP connecting to my ISP. However, after connecting, if I leave the connection idle for about half an hour, the modem will hang up itself which I do not really want. Can somebody point out to me how to turn off this feature? Thanks for help in advance ! Anthony -- TO UN