Re: [9fans] keeping isp connection alive

Re: [9fans] keeping isp connection alive

[anothy]

this depends on what your ISP's policy on
how they determine what connections to keep
up. the ISP i've got now looks at any bits,
and keeps the link up (to 8 hrs). i've used
ones in the past that looked at only TCP or
TCP and UDP, or excluded certain ports to
discourage just such connection-holding.

if you're running upas/fs anyway, try a
periodic cat of a file there > /dev/null or
just an ls -l > /dev/null.
-α.

Re: [9fans] keeping isp connection alive

[Bojan Zdravkovic]

Hey there!

What works is if you run ping at random intervals and in variable lengths.

If you're really smart you can script telnet to attach itself to port 80 and
get some data on some random hosts.

Hope that helped!

-Bojan


<wstan@planet.nl> wrote in message
news:20001213201306.EC35D199E9@mail.cse.psu.edu...
> I tried running ip/ping on a 3 min cycle but it didnt
> seem to work. Isn't gping the same thing but with a
> graphic display?
>
> Bill

Re: [9fans] keeping isp connection alive

[wstan]

I tried running ip/ping on a 3 min cycle but it didnt
seem to work. Isn't gping the same thing but with a
graphic display?

Bill

Re: [9fans] keeping isp connection alive

[presotto]

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You could always run gping to somewhere.

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From: "William Staniewicz" <wstan@planet.nl>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] keeping isp connection alive
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 19:10:54 +0100
Message-ID: <20001213191054.A201@localhost.local>

Is there a Plan9 way to keep a connection
to an ISP alive? The only activity I do
remotely is run upas/fs to get my email
off the pop3 server.

Bill

[9fans] keeping isp connection alive

[William Staniewicz]

Is there a Plan9 way to keep a connection
to an ISP alive? The only activity I do
remotely is run upas/fs to get my email
off the pop3 server.

Bill