Re: Intermittant PPP connection

1997-09-21 Thread Dima
Rob MacWilliams wrote: ... > My ISP has a 10 min. no activity timer once I am logged in and have > done something, so I just grab the mail every 9 min. Your ping should > work fine and grabbing the mail every 10 sec. is a little excessive. > If I were you I would contact your ISP and ask them

Re: Intermittant PPP connection

1997-09-21 Thread Rob MacWilliams
Victor Torrico writes: > > Piggy backing on your idea, I am just leaving ping turned on all the time so > that there is one ping every twenty seconds. This keeps the ISP timeout > window happy and should not interfere in any significant way with using any > applications or downloads. This

Re: Intermittant PPP connection

1997-09-20 Thread Victor Torrico
On 97/09/20 at 13:55 PM -0500, Rob MacWilliams wrote: > Victor Torrico writes: > > On 97/09/20 at 12:11 PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > Victor Torrico writes: > > > > I used to stay connected rock solid with no disconnections. Now when I > > > > do a pon I connect with no pro

Re: Intermittant PPP connection

1997-09-20 Thread Victor Torrico
On 97/09/20 at 13:55 PM -0500, Rob MacWilliams wrote: > Victor Torrico writes: > > On 97/09/20 at 12:11 PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > Victor Torrico writes: > > > > I used to stay connected rock solid with no disconnections. Now when I > > > > do a pon I connect with no pro

Re: Intermittant PPP connection

1997-09-20 Thread Victor Torrico
On 97/09/20 at 06:50 AM -0500, Ricardo Muggli wrote: > Is it possible you installed diald? I installed diald and changed the > /etc/diald/diald.options so the connect option pointed to pon. That is a > big mistake because the pon script has the persist option. If you would > like to use your exis

Re: Intermittant PPP connection

1997-09-20 Thread Victor Torrico
On 97/09/20 at 12:11 PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Victor Torrico writes: > > I used to stay connected rock solid with no disconnections. Now when I > > do a pon I connect with no problem but drop the connection after a few > > seconds. > > Has your isp made any changes lately? Mine rec

Re: Intermittant PPP connection

1997-09-20 Thread john
Victor Torrico writes: > I used to stay connected rock solid with no disconnections. Now when I > do a pon I connect with no problem but drop the connection after a few > seconds. Has your isp made any changes lately? Mine recently made an unannounced change which required me to insert a pause a

Re: Intermittant PPP connection

1997-09-20 Thread Ricardo Muggli
Is it possible you installed diald? I installed diald and changed the /etc/diald/diald.options so the connect option pointed to pon. That is a big mistake because the pon script has the persist option. If you would like to use your existing pon script you can modify the /etc/ppp.options_out and get