On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Greg Olszewski wrote:
> > loop forever
> > ping
> > sleep
> > return
> >
> um. how about
> ping -i5 isp.com &
> -i makes it wait a number of seconds between each ping.
>
> I missed the start of this so maybe I'm just being dense.
>
> have fun
>
> greg
> --
> this is not here
Yep that would work too. There is probably 600 ways to do it :)
"-i wait
Wait wait seconds between sending each packet . The default is
to wait for one second between each packet. This option is in�
compatible with the -f option. "
Might want to wait more than 5 seconds between pings though. The post was for
stopping an ISP default idle timeout, something like 5 minutes idle and the
ISP disconnected them. Pinging them every 5 seconds will slove the problem of
getting disconnect, but it could slow down your Internet connection some what?
Maybe wait about 260-270 seconds between pings, it would keep em from getting
disconnect, plus it won't take as much load on the connection.
Jack
