Or you can just make a cron job that would say ping -c 3 www.somesite.com & and have that run every 5 minutes or so... add an line like: */5 * * * * root ping -c 3 www.somesite.com& to your /etc/crontab file... Pagan On Tuesday 06 May 2003 22:07, John wrote:
On Tuesday 06 May 2003 16:16, Rick Friedman wrote:
I just recently upgraded from 8.1 to 8.2. Since then, whenever I am connected to the internet for about 5 minutes or so, I am automatically disconnected (I am on a dialup).
I thought it had to do with wvdial.conf. So, I changed the Idle Seconds parameter to 0 to prevent a disconnect. Unfortunately, the disconnect still occurs. I am using KPPP to make the connection.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Rick
I haven't read any of the other responses yet, but I can bet it's your ISP, trying to save bandwidth. They see an idle line after a certain period of time, and cut it off. It's easy to get around this though...what I do is once I'm connected, I fire up my GAIM, which sends a keep-alive (I think that's what it's called) every minute or so to the protocol you're logged in on (like yahoo or aim or whatever), this way it looks like your 'busy' to the ISP, and they don't cut you off near as fast (I've been able to stay online and not doing a single thing but play pysol for 4 hours and better). Even if you don't like or use chat, get a yahoo account, and just use it to sign on (set your preferences so no one will bother you).
John -- A butterfly is: Pretty,soft,harmless...and useless, just like M$N. My Penguin eats butterflies.