From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 1 23:08:50 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA17624 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 1 Sep 1997 23:08:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts15-line15.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.198]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA17619 for ; Mon, 1 Sep 1997 23:08:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA03204; Mon, 1 Sep 1997 23:08:40 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 1 Sep 1997 23:08:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Yimin Hsiao cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org'" Subject: Re: Help with PPP In-Reply-To: <01BCB6FD.B3040EE0@yihsiao.extern.ucsd.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 1 Sep 1997, Yimin Hsiao wrote: > I'm trying to establish a conection with my ISP using ppp so that I can > use the web browser. I did it by going into ppp and using term program. > After a connection is established the ppp prompt switched to packet > mode, and I was free to use the web browser. But every time I did the > above, after a while (~2 min) I got logged off. Why is that? Am I > supposed to just use the term program to establish connection and let > the ppp program sit idle and go ahead and use my brower? Or is there > any command that I'm supposed to type in the ppp prompt after I made the > connection? Try running `set timeout 0' before starting `term'. Does your ISP automatically disconnect you after a time without any activity? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo