On Sat, 01 Jun 2002 13:18:35 -0500, Sam Ewalt wrote: > On Fri, 31 May 2002 21:04:36 -0500, Glenn McCorkle wrote:
>> Connect to your ISP, fire-up Arachne, sit-back-and-do-nothing. >> You might need to wait for 10min, 15min, 20min or more. >> It varies from one ISP to another. >> (in my case, with CisNet.... 15min) >> What happened??? > Nothing happens. I don't get disconnected. I can sit here all day > and I don't get disconnected. My ISP even promises not to disconnect > and doesn't, even after hours of inactivity. I once forgot to hangup > and came back after work a good ten hours later and still had a > live connection. > But if I'm *inside the Insight editor* I will always get disconnected. > Depending on net traffic, sunspots, or who knows what, I will get > disconnected within five or six minutes at the most. The reason (I am guessing) is that when inside Insight your are NOT inside Arachne. Likely Arachne makes infrequent keep-alive requests to your ISP, and Insight of course doesn't even know you are connected. Maybe there should be a "keep-alive" function in the packet driver itself ? - Clarence Verge - Back to using Arachne V1.62 ....
