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Hi Phil,
           Would really appreciate your scripts. I am about to 
do the same thing and the scripts will save me heaps of time
Thanx
Tony Selmes


On Tue, 12 Jan 1999 23:59:21 +1100, Phill Edwards
<pedwards@mpx.com.au> wrote:

>Oh yes indeedy. I've managed to get diald working so that it connects up
>to my OzEmail account when it detects any IP traffic which needs to go
>out to the Internet. And I'm pretty pleased about that I can tell you
>because it was a bit of a struggle for the loikes of me :)
>
>However, I do have a couple of small remaining problemettes which I'm
>hoping someone has already sorted out.
>
>1) How do you make the link stay up for a decent amount of time (say 15
>mins) even though there's no traffic. I've had to resort to writing a
>shell script which pings every 30 secs. Now there must be something more
>elegant than that! I tried "impulse 900,45" but it had no effect. I keep
>getting disconnected after approx 30 secs idle time.
>
>2) Is it possible to continue to use manual ppp connections. Whenever
>I try to do this now, the logs give the impression that I've connected
>OK, and local and remote IPs are allocated, but I can't ping anything.
>It's as if the connection didn't succeed at all.
>
>BTW - if anyone wants my diald setup scripts they're very welcome.
>TIA,
>-- Phill --
>