From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 28 15:42:03 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA26305 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 28 Feb 1997 15:42:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from admin.cyberenet.net (mail@admin.cyberenet.net [204.213.252.6]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA26283 for ; Fri, 28 Feb 1997 15:41:22 -0800 (PST) From: wb2oyc@cyberenet.net Received: from ux1.cyberenet.net [204.213.252.2] (root) by admin.cyberenet.net with smtp (Exim 1.59 #1) id 0w0bvN-0005EC-00; Fri, 28 Feb 1997 18:41:13 -0500 Received: from wb2oyc.ppp.cyberenet.net by ux1.cyberenet.net with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #8) id m0w0beF-0006FAC; Fri, 28 Feb 97 18:23 EST Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 0.4 [p0] on Linux Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 18:11:47 -0500 (EST) To: Burton Sampley Subject: Re: Automatic re-dial Cc: Nat Low , RPD , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On 22:32:11 Burton Sampley wrote: >>On Thu, 27 Feb 1997, Nat Low wrote: > >> To keep my connection established, I have a cron job that checks my mail >> every 10 minutes with popclient. If you setup ppp or pppd to dial on >> demand, this checking of mail will cause the connection to re-open if it >> gets dropped. The max down-time would be 10 minutes, but you could make >> the cron job run at lesser intervals. > Actually, its even easier than that! The PPP options file has a parameter that will generate an LCP echo request at intervals you can set. Just uncomment it and set the value you like. The options file I have selects a value of 30 se c. All you need to do is delete the '#' on that line to turn it on! This causes th e LCP process (part of PPP) to send an echo request every 30 sec, and if your provider sees it, he'll send back a packet. Keeps the line up nicely, thank you >. Paul >> > there is a disconnection. >> >