On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 01:28 pm, Richard wrote:
On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 20:11, Jasmine Davis wrote:
It is not just staying online until kicked off. I want it to reconnect, even without network activity, so the system stays connected 24/7.
Jasmine
That's a whole nuther thing, then. What usually happens is your ISP will automatically kick you off after a period of inactivity. Sometimes checking your email every 10 minutes or so will be all that is required to keep you online. However, some ISP's won't let that kind of activity count. Some even do a disconnect for you every four hours or so regardless of what you are doing.
The system in question here uses a permanent connection for an office mailserver, so it is importent for it to stay online & the ISP knows that. The connection that is used is ADSL & the ISP does not kick the line off unless somthing down their end (like Telstra) pull the plug for maintenace or more often, other failure. It is just when it gets kicked off, it has trouble getting back on.
One partial solution would be to automatically reconnect whenever there is a disconnect. I believe that is the Dial on Demand that you can select in the Connection Parameters page of Yast Modem setup. Perhaps someone who still uses a modem can better help you.
I have tried AUTO_RECONNECT='yes' in the provider file but this does not seem to do anything. I even set a cron job to ping an outside source every 10 minutes, but this does not seem to get it back online, most times, the system has to be restarted for it to reconnect.
Have you given any thought to getting broadband, like cable, or ADSL to stay online permanently? For me cable is the real answer. Always on, fast and I can use the phone at the same time.
As I said before, this is ADSL, but in AU, it is pretty unreliable for staying up. Jasmine -- Jasmine Davis - Photo Girl www.photo-girl.com Registered Linux User Since August 1999, No: 218292 -------------------------->> Welcome to SuSE Linux 8.2 i686 - Kernel 2.4.20-64GB-SMP hotgirls login: 9:15am up 1 day 17:18, 2 users, load average: 0.82, 0.25, 0.09