From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 5 5:59:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B278715015 for ; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 05:59:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #3) id 11YUBS-000Ilx-00; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 13:59:10 +0100 Received: from localhost (jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id NAA19655; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 13:59:06 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 13:59:06 +0100 (BST) From: J McKitrick To: Alex V P 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 remember seeing Ascend on the login screen. But i am never idle. I am always using the connection, so i don't see why it cuts off. And this never happens in windows. -jm On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Alex V P wrote: >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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message