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Re: 3Com Modem and Linux timout script for linux?

From: Craig Harding <crh_at_outpost.co.nz>
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 23:06:28 +1300
Message-ID: <3AAB4E24.61CEE96@outpost.co.nz>

Kyle Carter wrote:
 
> How is everyone overcoming the 14 second timeout with the 3com dual
> connect??..
> I would quite like a bit more elegant of a solution than the shell i have on
> my box constantly pinging the ISP.

If you're using a unix box, you should be able to tell your PPP setup to
do LQR echo requests at a predefined interval. Set these to 10secs and
Robert's your Mother's Brother! This is what I do on my FreeBSD box with
user mode PPP.

                                                        -- C.

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