Possibly stupid question

Mark Ovens marko at freebsd.org
Sat Aug 5 10:58:56 BST 2000


On Sat, Aug 05, 2000 at 08:54:18AM +0100, Robin Melville wrote:
> At 7:01 pm +0100 4/8/00, Mark Ovens wrote:
> >On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 05:51:05PM +0100, Robin Melville wrote:
> >... having moved to ntlworld I now find that
> >  > dial-on-demand ppp insists on redialling automatically whenever a
> >  > timeout occurs.
> >
> >  >   set reconnect 3 5
> >
> >Er, it's doing so because you are telling it to
> >
> 
> Dah... that *is* dumb of me. NTL world has a 5 min timeout, my 
> previous provider was 7 mins, that's why it started happening after 
> the switch.
> 

I use NTL too. Do I take it that you run something every 6.5 mins or
so to prevent it timing out? I have fetchmail(1) check for new mail
every 2 minutes.

> Thanks, and sorry.
> 
> Robin.
> 
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