From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 5 8:12: 9 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 013B615216 for ; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 08:12:03 -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 LAA02768; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 11:01:45 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from alex@neptun.big-blue.net) Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 11:01:45 -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 said that not because i didn't believed you, but because I was dealing with ascends for a while. I spend hours on the phone with their tech support ( calls like that cost) and change their firmware couple of times. after all, my opinion is if nobody can explain something, somethings fishy about that. according to me, you have 2 choices: 1' go back to windows, adn enjoy in life till dooms day. 2' go to 1 in most cases, if I were you, a would've call my ISP, jump on sysadmins ass ( like they were jumping on mine) until you find a solution. but before you do that , i hope u have enough knowledge so you can back up your words so you won't be one among the others ( u know, my mouse won't work, how can I print from IE5.x2345 or how to save file). i guess I hate winblows and anything when someone is comparing us ( unix) with them. i'm using Freebsd box with the firewall ( 10 computers in the lan at home) via dialup online, because I don't need fast connection from home. I stay up for days ( dedicated connections 24/7) without loosing my link. When I use windows, it cuts me off, every 15 minutes. Can u explain this? alex p.s. my english is bad, i know, no ned to remind me ;-) On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, J McKitrick wrote: > 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