most of the knowledgeable boffins who have posted on this refer to setting
LCP_INTERVAL=14 in pppoe.conf. more elegant than ping.

--On Sunday, 11 March 2001 23:06 +1300 Craig Harding <crh@outpost.co.nz>
wrote:

> 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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