From owner-freebsd-current Thu Aug 10 12:14:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.ocsny.com (apollo.ocsny.com [204.107.76.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0083F37BAB3; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 12:14:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mikel@ocsny.com) Received: from ocsny.com (thoth.upan.org [204.107.76.16]) by apollo.ocsny.com (8.9.2/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA86947; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 15:12:55 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <39930109.DE53403@ocsny.com> Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 15:22:49 -0400 From: Mikel Organization: Optimized Computer Solutions, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en,it MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Leif Neland Cc: justin , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: USER PPP References: Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------BF060A585ECDBE9A0AE4D59D" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------BF060A585ECDBE9A0AE4D59D Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit better yet why not have your email client automatically download your email every 4 minutes... Leif Neland wrote: > 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-current" in the body of the message -- Cheers, Mikel +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+ | Optimized Computer Solutions, Inc http://www.ocsny.com | 39 W14th Street, Suite 203 212 727 2238 x132 | New York, NY 10011 +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+ --------------BF060A585ECDBE9A0AE4D59D Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="mikel.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Mikel Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="mikel.vcf" begin:vcard n:King;Mikel tel;fax:2124638402 tel;home:http://www.upan.org tel;work:2127272100 x-mozilla-html:TRUE org:Optimized Computer Solutions version:2.1 email;internet:mikel@ocsny.com title:Director of Network Operations & Technology adr;quoted-printable:;;39 W14th St.=0D=0ASte 203;New York;NY;10011;US note;quoted-printable:fBSD, PHP, MySql and OCS Rule!!!=0D=0A=0D=0AGoal is to be MS free by the end of 2k. x-mozilla-cpt:;7312 fn:Mikel King end:vcard --------------BF060A585ECDBE9A0AE4D59D-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message