Modem Help

Roy Babin wrote:

>Just installed SUDE 8.2 ,Real nice Having trouble staying connected to
>server, the only setting I find allows 500 sec with no activity. How can I
>get continuos connect? I`m fairly new to Linux, and an old man, but willing
>to learn all I can. Yhaks to PLUG for all the help in the opast.
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It's likely that you're having a problem with your ISP timing you out.
Back in the day (when I still used a modem for net access), I would set
up a cron job
to perform light weight net connections in the backround. Typically I'd
ping a site that
was mine (like my box at work), use lynx or wget to pull a small web
page from somewhere,
or use fetchmail to pull my mail from my POP (why cant ISP's use
IMAP?!?) mail account.

JD