Hi all! My brother has recently installed Debian 1.3.1 on his machine, but it is not useful to him until I can install and configure some of the software he wants. I've already done some of that, by coordinating times with him to do this task.
He's been trying to dial-in in the morning and connect, then email his dynamic IP to me so I can telnet in and do some stuff while we are at work (yes I have some slack minutes while compiling). But by the time I get to it, it has disconnected, I suspect due to a timeout. (When he is FTPing etc. under Windows it will stay connected overnight, and we've gone for hours under Linux while actively using the connection.) I don't have PPP myself, so I thought I'd ask this question before re-inventing the wheel: is there a setting to make PPP keep the connection from timing out? A ping to the gateway every 10mins or so should do the trick. Or, do I have to set up a cron job to accomplish that task? (That is how I would implement it). Has anyone else solved this problem? Any suggestions? He doesn't want to have it connected all the time, but just doesn't want it to disconnect while waiting for me to log in and do stuff. Thanks! -- SEGV - http://www.cgocable.net/~mlepage/ -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
