From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 10 9:23:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns.internet.dk (ns.internet.dk [194.19.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFBFA37B699; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 09:23:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from leifn@neland.dk) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by ns.internet.dk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with UUCP id SAA01761; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 18:23:14 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from leifn@neland.dk) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by arnold.neland.dk (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e7AGN3562215; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 18:23:07 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from leifn@neland.dk) Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 18:22:58 +0200 (CEST) From: Leif Neland To: justin Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: USER PPP In-Reply-To: <000801c00260$657d4b80$668df9d0@hernandez> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, justin wrote: > Hey fellas... > > What I would like to do right now, however, is guarantee that > anytime, anyday, barring a problem with my ISP, that my box is > connected to the internet. I have it currently setup to dial the > internet when it boots and that seems, so far to work ok. My problem > you ask? My ISP implements a 5 minute no transfer policy, they > disconnect my connection after 5 minutes of 'idling'. What I would > like to do is have some kind of check to verify if I am still > connected to the internet and if not, execute it. I was thinking some > type of script running from crontab every 5 minutes. If I am not > connected, then automatically reconnect to the internet. > Why do you want to be online all the time? Are you running a server which should be accessible from the internet? Do you have adsl or the like available? Perhaps we will see questions on the radius- or isp-lists: How do I disconnect an user when the traffic is below a certain limit? How do I limit the number of connects daily from an user? How do I limit the number of minutes daily per user? Leif To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message