That got it. I am still having a little touble with the link but I want to work on it for a bit before screaming for help. Thanks! Edward Dekkers wrote: > > Hello, I am very new to Linux and diald. I did manage to install Linux, > > ipmasqurading and diald in only 3 months with little help, other than > > lurking in this list. > > You're doing better than most :) > > > The problem I am having is the link isn't staying up very long. It > > looks like it's timing out and dropping connection after about 5 minutes > > of idle time. I have looked in the diald.conf file and bumped up all the > > settings (that I understand) to 60 minutes but the link to my ISP is > > still dropping. I know it isn't timing out on the ISP end because I can > > dial it up manually and it will stay up for 30 minutes of idle time. > > Is there any where else I can look for time-out settings? > > HHmm. Is your diald.conf including a filter? Like standard.filter for > example? > > if True then > Have a look in standard.filter > else > begin > Are you sure you're modifying the correct diald.conf? For example, in my > setup I have a symbolic link to /etc/diald/diald.conf as /etc/diald.conf > if True then > I don't know any more > else > Make sure your editing the right config file; > end; > > Let me know how you get on. > > -- > Edward Dekkers (Director) > Triple D Computer Services Pty. Ltd. > P: +61 8 9397-1040 > F: +61 8 9397-0548 > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-diald" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- My Favorite newsgroup.....alt.os.windows.98.crash.crash.crash ***************************************************************** Out the 10Base-T, off the bridge, round the token-ring, past the firewall, through the router, down the T1, over the leased line ... nothing but Net. This correspondent will self-destruct in 5 seconds. ***************************************************************** - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-diald" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
