I'm trying to set up my Linux box to dial out - but I keep getting the ol' message of pppd daemon died unexpectedly.
This happened to me last night, right annoying, isn't it? I suspect that it might have something to do with your ISP closing the connection if you fulfill requirements to be classified as 'Idle' ie you may not have sent any connection requests on standard ports for xx seconds/minutes/hours/decades. Obviously something like this varies from ISP to ISP, but one way to get past it is to ping a remote host every minute or so while you're online. Either set a script to do it, or do it manually (advantage of the latter is you can do different ones - so it doesn't look like you're doing anything dodgy) Or, and probably more likely to achieve the desired result, although less automate-able is to have an extra browser window open, and make occasional connecetions to random websites. More like to work as ISPs are more likely to monitor for connections on port 80 than any other port. -- James Ogley, SuSE Linux UK Ltd - +44 (0) 20 8 387 4088 @ Work: ogley@suse.co.uk www.suse.co.uk @ Home: james@rubberturnip.org.uk www.rubberturnip.org.uk ICQ: 57374251 Slashdot: riggwelter (84180) -- 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/