On Tuesday 03 February 2004 14:03, robomort wrote:
Sorry for the misunderstanding, I could not find the root of the thread and I suppose I assumed you were having the same problem that I had. Strange setup you have with the adsl . With my ISP here in australia adsl connections are permanent 24/7 we even get a choice of static or dynamic IP. As for the ISP timeout issue I suppose you could get your mail client to check for mail at regular intervals I guess that would be fair usage ;)
Actually Rob, there in Aus was where I was having the problem. Bigpond (at least in Hobart) will drop you if idle for more than a few minutes. Now the first time our machine tried to check mail or do anything else cinternet would connect so fast you thought you were always connected. But our mailserver here in the states forwarded mail to our linux box on bigpond (using dyndns.org dynamic dns). But the linux machine connection was dumped by bigpond, so connection was impossible from the US. Only by forcing connections (we used ping in a cron job) every three minutes could we guarentee it would stay up, or re-connect if it went down for any reason. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen