🚀 go-pugleaf

On Tue, 18 Nov 1997, Paul Wilkins wrote:

> the modem at the other end answers but dosen't connect, your phone bill
> can go through the roof.

Okay, I'd use the 'persist' option, setup ping, or even better use a
script called 'pinger', that should keep the connection up significanly
longer (by pinging it, to keep it alive).

If hardware is the problem that's causing the dropouts (ie: disk
activity), most likely you need to rearrange your IRQ's using some kind of
utility such as irqtune.

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