keeping PPP alive

[brent harding]

Probably using a ping of an outside address on a crontab job will maybe do
the trick, but the isp may need a certain amount of activity. Fetchmail in
daemon mode does about the same approach, it keeps the connection up, I was
thinking about using ping to do it, wonder if doing a telnet to a host that
responds connection refused will do it, or telnet to an invalid domain
every few minutes. Once ping is started, it keeps going until you hit
ctrl-c, but when it goes to the background, as cron would do, it's hard to
kill it.
At 08:12 PM 7/5/00 -0400, you 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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