From kde Thu May 28 22:24:49 1998 From: "Brandon K. Matthews" Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 22:24:49 +0000 To: kde Subject: Re: kppp proposal X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde&m=90221983430268 On Thu, 28 May 1998, David Klemm wrote: >Hi, > >today i forgot to disconnect via kppp and my modem was online for 30 minutes >without any traffic on the line. What about having and option in the kppp >setup that after a specified period of no traffic the line will be cut? I'm about to start running a server which needs to be up 24/7... perhaps some form of a keep-alive could be implemeted at the same time the timeout feature is... One idea is to allow the user to specify an IP to ping every so often (user spec'd) with a random size packet (or also user spec'd?) Of course ping -i 300 123.456.789.012 works too ;-) -- Send posts to: kde@lists.netcentral.net Send all commands to: kde-request@lists.netcentral.net Put your command in the SUBJECT of the message: "subscribe", "unsubscribe", "set digest on", or "set digest off" ********************************************************************** This list is from your pals at NetCentral