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Where do i get rid of this idled timer for ppp? it keeps taking down the connection every so many minutes for lack of actvity. This is on 6.3.

I don't know how you do it in SuSE as I am a newbie, but another place to look is your ISP. Some ISP's have a time limit on inactivity. When that time is reached the ISP breaks the connection. Give them a call and see if they do have this set up.

Thanks for the idea. This is clean install of 6.3 as the upgrade from 6.1 to 6.3 got screwed up. This problem didn't happen the day before on 6.1. I did see a message some where telling there was a timer on pppd as it was installed. I have this in the log. Jan 16 17:16:42 gizmo pppd[1742]: Terminating connection due to lack of activity. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

Yep, I just stay on ICQ and IRC..this keeps the account activity open and my isp just lets me stay connected..at the writting of this mail I have been online for about 13 hours.. BTW..if you want to be on irc..then join #suse at irc.linux.com ... we could always use more people to make life interesting :) laters,

On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, clarge@gizmo.macn.bc.ca writes:

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Where do i get rid of this idled timer for ppp? it keeps taking down the connection every so many minutes for lack of actvity. This is on 6.3.

I might be wrong, but it seems to me that it's your ISP that's closing down the connection... mine runs for hours/days on SuSE 6.3, BUT if I don't have activity for a while (5min?) my ISP closes it down.

Solution: Set up a CRON job to ping your ISP every 5,10 or so minutes. Or, if you are using fetchmail, set it to fetch mail every 5 minutes or so (this is what I do).

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On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, Ben Rosenberg wrote: br> Yep, I just stay on ICQ and IRC..this keeps the account activity open br> and my isp just lets me stay connected..at the writting of this mail I br> have been online for about 13 hours.. br> br> BTW..if you want to be on irc..then join #suse at irc.linux.com ... we br> could always use more people to make life interesting :) br> I wrote a tcl script that starts and stops a ping session to a given host from a config file or command line at a default or command line given interval. Its come along way from simply doing 'ping -i 60 some.host.com' works pretty darn good if I say so myself and hasn't given me any problems in all my tiems of using it. Could probably come up with something in perl or c/c++ depending on a persons needs. br> br> laters, br> br> > On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, clarge@gizmo.macn.bc.ca writes: br> > > Where do i get rid of this idled timer for ppp? it keeps taking down the br> > > connection every so many minutes for lack of actvity. This is on 6.3. br> > br> > I might be wrong, but it seems to me that it's your ISP that's closing down the br> > connection... mine runs for hours/days on SuSE 6.3, BUT if I don't have br> > activity for a while (5min?) my ISP closes it down. br> > br> > Solution: Set up a CRON job to ping your ISP every 5,10 or so minutes. Or, if br> > you are using fetchmail, set it to fetch mail every 5 minutes or so (this is br> > what I do). br> br> -- S.Toms - tomas@primenet.com - homepage is in the works SuSE Linux v6.2+ - Kernel 2.2.13 43rd Law of Computing: Anything that can go wr fortune: Segmentation violation -- Core dumped -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/