That is a common problem with the 3Com's HomeConnect..

See

http://www.nzdsl.co.nz/howtos/3Com/3ComDualLink.html

And put

LCP_INTERVAL=14

That will fix the problem and you don't have to waste doing a ping all the
time :-)

Thanks
Craig Whitmore
http://www.nzdsl.co.nz
New Zealand DSL Information

> Still, one other funny that I've sort of fixed came up. The connection
> was being dropped every few minutes (the longest uptime I had was 10
> mins), and I started pinging things to see when it really dropped. To my
> surprise the connection didn't drop while I was pinging. Hmm, a ping
> every 15 secs seems to stop the link from dropping. Guess what runs in
> the background now...
>
>

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