From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 21 18:37:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66BC414DD6 for ; Tue, 21 Dec 1999 18:37:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mw@theatre.sax.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with UUCP id DAA26420; Wed, 22 Dec 1999 03:37:38 +0100 (CET) Received: by theatre.sax.de (8.9.3/8.6.12-s1) id DAA33771; Wed, 22 Dec 1999 03:33:27 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 03:33:27 +0100 From: Martin Welk To: Alex Charalabidis Cc: Michael Lucas , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dedicated ISDN flags question Message-ID: <19991222033327.B33335@theatre.sax.de> References: <199912211757.MAA51493@blackhelicopters.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from alex@wnm.net on Tue, Dec 21, 1999 at 01:23:42PM -0600 Organization: Private UUCP/Usenet site. X-Phone: +49 3731 458867 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD http://www.freebsd.org/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- /| /| | /| / ,,You know, there's a lot of opportunities, / |/ | artin |/ |/ elk if you're knowing to take them, you know, there's a lot of opportunities, Freiberg/Saxony, Germany if there aren't you can make them, mw@sax.de / mw@theatre.sax.de make or break them!'' (Tennant/Lowe) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message