Re: ppp connection is terminated after 2 hours

[Sven Bornemann <sven.bornemann@a-city.de>]

Rob Weir wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 06:08:29PM +0100, Sven Bornemann wrote:
>  
>
> > Sorry, I found out that it is the ISP cutting
> > off the ppp connection after two hours.
> > But Gentoo could overcome this somehow.
> >
> > Any ideas how this is done?
> >    
>
> Maybe they idle you out after two hours?  You could always setup a cron
> job that runs on the hour and pings google.com a few times :-)
>
> -rob
>  

I tried a cron job already, but it is not an idle time problem for sure...
The ISP forces the disconnection every two ours making it difficult to
use the Gnutella Network etc.
I think somehow I must make the ISP server belief that I just logged on,
while I'm online for one and a half our or so...

Sven