keeping PPP alive

[Charles Hallenbeck]

Jacob -

Here are the relevant lines from my Slackware ip-up script. They look
pretty generic to me...

# If you want to ping the other end to keep the connection open.
# The output from ping will goto >/dev/null, you won't see it.
# Ping -i 60 = send ping every 60 seconds to remote = $5.

(ping -i 60 $5 &) >/dev/null 2>&1

Hope that helps.
Chuck.

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