Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 03:33:27 +0100 From: Martin Welk <mw@theatre.sax.de> To: Alex Charalabidis <alex@wnm.net> Cc: Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dedicated ISDN flags question Message-ID: <19991222033327.B33335@theatre.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.4.05.9912211312200.22123-100000@earth.wnm.net>; from alex@wnm.net on Tue, Dec 21, 1999 at 01:23:42PM -0600 References: <199912211757.MAA51493@blackhelicopters.org> <Pine.BSI.4.05.9912211312200.22123-100000@earth.wnm.net>
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On Tue, Dec 21, 1999 at 01:23:42PM -0600, Alex Charalabidis wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Michael Lucas wrote:
> >
> You probably have a timeout set in /etc/ppp/ppp.conf ("set timeout 1800"
> maybe). If not, the remote system could be killing your idle connection.
> The 3com ISDN TA is highly reliable as far as connection stability goes,
> according to my experience with it (I'd still rather pay for a Pipeline
> though :).
One could still ping the other side frequently (look for the -i option in
the ping man page :-) ), at least, as a Christmas workaround :-)
(With the -i option you can set the ping interval. One packet per minute
or even less should be enough.)
If I do something like this here, I cannot pay my phone bill anymore! :-(
Regards,
Martin
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