From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
From: Bojan Zdravkovic <bojanz@home.com>
Message-ID: <R2%Z5.136291$4U6.4612604@news1.rdc2.on.home.com>
References: <20001213201306.EC35D199E9@mail.cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] keeping isp connection alive
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 09:49:00 +0000
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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