Re: ppp_on_boot disconnects?
On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 09:09:29PM -0600, Matthew W. Roberts wrote:
> I've got /etc/ppp/ppp_on_boot so that my machine connects immediately
> on boot-up. However, the connection has been going down after a few
> minutes. The last few lines of ppp.log show this:
>
> Feb 16 20:41:27 roberts pppd[149]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x23 magic=0xc45a5c32]
> Feb 16 20:41:43 roberts pppd[149]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x24 magic=0xbc2ead1]
> Feb 16 20:41:59 roberts pppd[149]: Hangup (SIGHUP)
> Feb 16 20:41:59 roberts pppd[149]: Modem hangup
> Feb 16 20:41:59 roberts pppd[149]: Connection terminated.
> Feb 16 20:41:59 roberts pppd[149]: Exit.
>
> I'm not sure what that means. It's almost like the connection is
> terminated after running scripts in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d . I searched Deja
> and the web but could not find any documentation on how this is supposed
> to work.
most isps drop your connection if its idle for more then a few minutes
(10 - 15 are popular numbers) best way to deal with that is setup
something that causes traffic at regular intervals less then that of
your isp's timeout, my guess is you have a mail account there, so
setting up fetchmail to get mail from that account every 5 minutes
should do the trick. works for me, except the modem still hangs up
every 10 hours precisly... (not sure that is the ISP or this flaky
modem..)
--
Ethan Benson
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