On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 07:17:37PM -0500, justin wrote:
> Hey fellas...
>
> Allright, here is the situation. I just had a second phone line installed in my
>house, a POTS (plain old telephone service) line. I have plugged it directly into my
>FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE workstation/server. I allready have PPP setup and when I execute
>it, it runs fine. Now then, what I would eventually like to do is have all of my
>windows based machines connect to this one and use it as a gateway for internet
>traffic. However, that will come later.
>
> What I would like to do right now, however, is guarantee that anytime, anyday,
>barring a problem with my ISP, that my box is connected to the internet. I have it
>currently setup to dial the internet when it boots and that seems, so far to work ok.
>My problem you ask? My ISP implements a 5 minute no transfer policy, they disconnect
>my connection after 5 minutes of 'idling'. What I would like to do is have some kind
>of check to verify if I am still connected to the internet and if not, execute it. I
>was thinking some type of script running from crontab every 5 minutes. If I am not
>connected, then automatically reconnect to the internet.
>
> Now there is another possible solution I cannot find an answer to. Is there a
>BSD option to 'keep-alive' the connection so I do not time out? I would prefer not to
>leave an X session opening refreshing CNN every five minutes :P
>
Firstly, please set your mailer to wrap lines at ~70 chars please.
Add `` set reconnect'' to /etc/ppp/ppp.conf. From the manpage:
set reconnect timeout ntries
This command tells ppp to re-establish the connection ntries
times on loss of carrier with a pause of timeout seconds before
each try.For example,
> Your help and/or scripts are welcome :)
>
> Justin W. Pauler
> JWPages Web Development
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
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