On Sep 2, 2004, at 11:22 AM, Larry le Mac wrote:
In an attempt to keep my Mac/ADSL online all the time irrelevant of net activity I have now set Network Tool to continuously ping my ISP, seems to work...
If you can figure out how often you need to ping it you can write a script like: (or just copy the following)
#!/bin/sh ping -c 1 <isp's address> > /dev/null;
save it as something like 'pinger' and use cron to run it just often enough to keep the link alive. It will take some experimentation, but I'd start at every 15 minutes. If that works, try every half-hour.
You can use Cronnix as a GUI to access cron: <http://www.koch-schmidt.de/cronnix/>
Pinging once per second isn't bad in terms of your bandwidth use, but your ISP is more likely to catch on to what you're doing. They may assume that you're running a server of some sort which may be against the rules.
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Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Phar macy Information Technology Group
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