On Thursday 02 November 2000 12:01 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am having a problem with my system staying on line with a cable
> service. is there a way to keep the connection live.
> Mike Freeman
if the situation is as simple as your provider drops you after
so many minutes of 'idleness', then create an alias in bashrc that
does a 'ping -i 540 <ISP>' where the ISP is your provider and the
540 is an example for 9 minutes (ie, 540/60). Start your alias from
a console after you've made connection.
EG, I use 'alias eln="ping -i 540 www.earthlink.net" which when I
type 'eln' pings EarthLink every 9 minutes with 56 bytes. see man
ping
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Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
