From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 21 13: 4: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from prime.gushi.org (prime.gushi.org [208.23.118.172]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E711237B4C5 for ; Tue, 21 Nov 2000 13:04:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (danm@localhost) by prime.gushi.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA37084 for ; Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:50:55 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from danm@prime.gushi.org) Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:50:54 -0500 (EST) From: "Dan Mahoney, System Admin" To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: PPP questions. 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 Is there any way to have ppp periodically ping the remote host and drop and reconnect if the ping fails? I'm on a system where the host will get "stupid" and although I can still hear modem noise, I can't see any network activity. ALSO: Is there some way of tracing what connection attempt is opening the connection in automatic mode (for example, stupid adware, or windows media player trying to see if there's a new version available)? And once I know, is the a way of blocking it? It seems JUST BOOTING win98 will cause a connection to be open. Thanks for all the fish, Dan Mahoney -- "I love you forever eternally." -Connaian Expression --------Dan Mahoney-------- Techie, Sysadmin, WebGeek Gushi on efnet/undernet IRC ICQ: 13735144 AIM: LarpGM Web: http://prime.gushi.org finger danm@prime.gushi.org for pgp public key and tel# --------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message