keeping PPP alive

[Charles Hallenbeck]

Jacob -
Look in your "ip-up" script in "/etc/ppp" - I seem to recall there are
some lines commented out that will issue a ping every so often to do that.
Chuck.

On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Jacob Schmude wrote:

> Hi
> 	Does anyone know how to keep ppp from timing out? Actually, it's
> my provider doing this, but I want to keep the net connection alive. I'm
> not looking for a reconnect automatically after disconnect option, I
> already know how to do that. What I want is to somehow send or get
> something every so often so the ISP doesn't think I'm idle. Is there any
> way besides running fetchmail in daemon mode to do this?
> 
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