{"id":100,"date":"1997-09-09T01:36:29","date_gmt":"1997-09-09T09:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdhouse.org\/betips\/?p=100"},"modified":"1997-09-09T01:36:29","modified_gmt":"1997-09-09T09:36:29","slug":"get-connected-stay-connected-pt-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/?p=100","title":{"rendered":"Get\n connected, stay connected, pt. I"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you have problems keeping your PPP connection alive, it may help to send out regularly spaced ping commands to keep communication between you and your ISP alive. Here’s an addition you can make to your ppp-script, as well as a small separate script that sends out ping commands whenever the connection is up.
\nAdd to ~\/config\/etc\/ppp-script<\/code>:
\n——————–
\n
\nif [ \"$1\" = \"up\" ]
\nthen
\n\ttouch \/var\/tmp\/ppp_up
\n sits there
\n\tkeep_alive &
\n\tdate \"+%D %T sess $3 started on $2 as $4\" >> \/var\/log\/online.log
\n\tMediaPlayer \/boot\/home\/config\/sounds\/Startup Sounds\/GoodVibesStart.aiff &
\n\t [ $( roster | grep \"GimICQ2\" | wc -l) -eq 0 ] && { Workspaces 3 ;
\n \/boot\/home\/apps\/GimICQ2\/GimICQ_x86 & }
\nfi
\nif [ \"$1\" = \"down\" ]
\nthen
\n\tif [ -f \/var\/tmp\/ppp_up ]
\n\tthen
\n\t\ttouch \/var\/tmp\/ppp_down
\n\t\trm \/var\/tmp\/ppp_up
\n\t\tdate \"+%D %T sess $3 closed\" &gt;&gt; \/var\/log\/online.log
\n\t\tMediaPlayer \/boot\/home\/config\/sounds\/Startup Sounds\/DarkStart.aiff &
\n\telse
\n\t\tif [ -f \/var\/tmp\/ppp_down ]
\n\t\tthen
\n\t\t\trm \/var\/tmp\/ppp_down
\n\t\telse
\n\t\t\tMediaPlayer \/boot\/home\/config\/sounds\/System Beeps\/BoingAlert2.aiff &
\n\t\tfi
\n\tfi
\nfi
\n<\/code>
\n
\nNow create this script: \/boot\/home\/config\/bin\/keep_alive (don't forget to chmod this to 755):
\nwhile [ -f \/var\/tmp\/ppp_up ]
\ndo
\n\tping -c 1 -s 8 www.be.com
\n\tsleep 10
\ndone
\n<\/code>
\nSo these two pieces of code work in tandem to keep your connection humming along happily. You don’t need to launch any Terminal windows, press any Ctrl-C to quit, or anything else messy. Just connect and disconnect manually from the Deskbar replicant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you have problems keeping your PPP connection alive, it may help to send out regularly spaced ping commands to keep communication between you and your ISP alive. Here’s an addition you can make to your ppp-script, as well as a small separate script that sends out ping commands whenever the connection is up. Add […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-scripting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}