On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 11:55:41AM -0600, Michael Yartsev wrote:
I have a DSL connection which works fine.
Hi, I assume you have a SL 9.0.
My question is, how can I make the connection stay alive even when I log out/ in to my account? (or another account e.g root)
Set "stop-on-disconnect" to "never" in /etc/smpppd.conf (see man smpppd.conf).
And will the connection stay alive even when no user is logged into my machine? (@ the login screen).
Yes.
I also want to disable the timeout option when no internet activity has been detected for a while, where can I disable that?
Set "IDLETIME='0'" in /etc/sysconfig/network/providers/<your isp> or set it using YaST2. But some ISP close the connection when no traffic is going over it. A ping in the background might do the job. ciao Arvin