[Herefordshire] How do I specify a auto - timeout fora modemconnection?

[Andrew Hodgson]

Hi Julian,

No ADSL until late June.

When I am talking about background Internet activity, I am not talking about web browser sessions etc, although these count of course.  What I am talking about are all the broadcasts, connection attempts and pings etc that go on whilst connected which of course resets the timer.

Hth.
Andrew.


-----Original Message-----
From: herefordshire-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk on behalf of Julian Robbins
Sent: Wed 02/03/2005 00:36
To: Herefordshire Linux Users Group.
Subject: Re: [Herefordshire] How do I specify a auto - timeout fora	modemconnection?
 
Hi

Thanks Andrew,

I agree with what you've found. Some sites, do allow a disconnect, 
because there is no traffic passing upward or downward, but there's many 
that keep an active connection, so do not allow the connection to drop. 
The only way I can get it to work, is to make sure that the web broswer 
window is closed too.

By the way, has your area got ADSL as yet ?? I know virtually all the 
county's exchanges will be enabled by July this year.

Julian

Andrew Hodgson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have had real issues with this myself here because after say 15
> minutes of inactivity, such a thing does not exist with background
> Internet traffic.  The best I got it to was around 1 minute on a dialup
> connection of inactivity, which of course was too quick.  Unfortunately
> I haven't messed with diald options and have only used Smoothwall to do
> this, and as I use an ISDN connection now through a router have
> forgotten exactly where in the interface I went to get it working.
> 
> Thanks.
> Andrew.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: herefordshire-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
> [mailto:herefordshire-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Julian
> Robbins
> Sent: 01 March 2005 20:09
> To: Herefordshire Linux Users Group.
> Subject: [Herefordshire] How do I specify a auto - timeout for a
> modemconnection?
> 
> Hi
> 
> 
> Any ideas how i specify in a linux ppp connection a timeout so the modem
> line drops say after 15 mins ?
> 
> Julian
> 
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