Michael Should be not muxh more then pinging the ISP every 5 minutes or so. That way if it (the ISP) has a time limit, you defeat it everytime you ping. Lucky guy!
HTH Subject: ppp keep alive. Date: Mon, Dec 21, 1998 at 12:20:14PM +1100 In reply to:debian Quoting debian([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Anyway care to help me write a script to keep my ppp0 device alive.. I have > a permanent dialup modem.. and currently it stays connected for about 2 > weeks straight at a time.. But dies on the odd ocassion. So anyway care to > help me write a keep alive script that will check for ppp0 being up every > 10mins.. and if it is down.. then restart the ppp0 via ppp-on script. > > Michael -- A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing. _______________________________________________________ Wayne T. Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>