From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 5 5:35:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from neptun.big-blue.net (neptun1.big-blue.net [208.237.121.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC08014BEA for ; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 05:35:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alex@neptun.big-blue.net) Received: from localhost (alex@localhost) by neptun.big-blue.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id IAA02467; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 08:25:11 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from alex@neptun.big-blue.net) Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 08:25:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Alex V P To: J McKitrick Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ISP connections problems In-Reply-To: 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 i used to work for an ISP and most of the dialups were disconnected for idle time after 15m. my solution was something like: ping -i 60 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the router of the isp. it was working 99% of the time.In most cases that was happening in the places where dialups were going on ASCEND MAX routers. maybe this will help alex On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, J McKitrick wrote: > I'm having a problem with both of my ISP's. One is PAP, one is not, one > is local, one is not. But both seem to cut out after about ten minutes. > ANy idea why? I don't rememeber this happening with windows. > > -jm > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message