keeping PPP alive

[brent harding]

I used to use selfhost.com with some script under linux, that did the trick
the script updated the ip address every couple of minutes, so those that
have dhcp that only keeps an ip for 10 minutes have little problem, as this
client updates frequently. I lost it in a hard drive crash, but a friend of
mine had it. It seems that mail doesn't work on inbound connections with
it, but maybe something with ipchains or something odd, the only program I
know of that could prevent it from working, was invoked in the script, or
selfhost won't take mail for it's subdomains and deliver it to your
machine, dynodns.net allows me to deliver mail and receive it locally on my
linux box, now that I'm using debian. I don't even know how to use
ipchains, so if that was the issue, I didn't start that, but maybe an old
zipspeak initiation script has stuff referring to it in their.
At 08:27 PM 7/5/00 -0400, you wrote:
>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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