From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 26 11:22:59 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id LAA25532 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 26 Aug 1995 11:22:59 -0700 Received: from virgo.ai.net (virgo.ai.net [198.69.44.2]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA25525 for ; Sat, 26 Aug 1995 11:22:56 -0700 Received: from aries.ai.net (aries.ai.net [198.69.44.1]) by virgo.ai.net (8.6.11/8.6.12) with ESMTP id OAA10563; Sat, 26 Aug 1995 14:38:35 -0400 Received: (from nc@localhost) by aries.ai.net (8.6.11/8.6.12) id OAA11464; Sat, 26 Aug 1995 14:22:47 -0400 Date: Sat, 26 Aug 1995 14:22:47 -0400 (EDT) From: Network Coordinator To: Gang-Ryung Uh cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: SLIP In-Reply-To: <199508261745.NAA13309@xi.cs.fsu.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I am using SLIP to access Internet (with kermit). But the school > terminal server drops the line which is not active for 30 minutes. > Is there any utility to keep my connection alive? Try using ping. Ping a host on the internet like your school's machine every 30 seconds or so. > The school annex supports five 28.8k modem lines. Each line allows > slip connection. But since the annex is run by rotary system, I > can not expect what line I get actually connected when I dial > up a certain number. Is there any utility to handle this problem > for SLIP connection. Add functionality to your kermit dial script to drop connection and redial if you don't get a 28.8 connect or find out the "true" number of a few of the 28.8 lines and dial them directly. Collette