[plug] failing adsl connection

[Sol]

Leon Brooks wrote:

>On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 16:56, Sol wrote:
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>>Stay away too long and fails again. I don't know what's
>>causing it nor what to do about it.
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>>Jul 21 13:48:07 tesla pppd[17950]: Terminating connection due to lack
>>of activity.
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>add this ine to /etc/ppp/options (or elsewhere if the pppd running your 
>ADSL expects it elsewhere):
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>    idle 0
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>...or if there is already an idle option there, remove it. If that 
>doesn't work, try idle 9999999 (a bit over 100 days) instead. If you 
>want to stay up full-time even it Telstra chucks a brief sad, try 
>adding:
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>    persist
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>Cheers; Leon
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thankyous to Leon and Leon,

strange thing is, I don't remember setting this. I wonder if this is a 
SuSE 8.2 "feature". Or perhaps I've been misconfiguring files in my 
sleep... ;-)

cheers; sol

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