On Sunday 15 June 2003 18:23, Jasmine Davis 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.
Woops, I misunderstood your question. I thought you were using a standard modem ppp connection. Sorry, It's been a couple of years since I tried the ADSL setup but as I recal it was pretty straight forward. I simply found the ADSL Howto and with SuSE 8.0 it worked fine til Ma Bell decided to kill the independent isp's in California. We redid it as ADSL ppoe per the HOWTO. Again pretty straight forward. I started with this HowTo: http://new.linuxnow.com/docs/content/ADSL/ADSL-3.html And the SuSE Administrator's guide has more info on ADSL and DSL setup at pp418-419. They say to "set the parameter DEMAND="yes" in /etc/sysconfig/network/providers/provider0 file then define an idle time via the variable IDLE-TIME="60". This way, an unused connection will be dropped after sixty seconds." Obviously setting the time to a large number would increase the timeout. Maybe a blank would disable the timeout. It's worth a try. Have you tried that yet? HTH< Richard