dial-up connection shutdown
We have a dial-up connection that is set to automatically shutdown after 1 h of usage.
I am to extend this to a longer period. Where is this setting usually stored, i.e. which file should I edit? |
I think there are few options
what dialer are you using? |
I wish I knew...
The only thing I know it is a FreeBSD server. I can login and su into it, but the dialer was set up by an other guy whose help is unavailable. Then how can I determine the dialer first? |
How exactly do you login, in X or in a term?
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In term with SSH.
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Just reading the ssh man and it sounds like you edit the config file and change KeepAlive to 'yes'. You can also enter verbose or ssh -v to see what happens to kill your connection after the hour.
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I do not think this is a question of an SSH setting, since even those guys who do not use SSH just browse the internet via that dial-up connection are disconnected when the one hour is over.
Or do you rather mean that SSH can somehow keep alive a dial-up connection even if the connection termination is programmed somewhere else? I suspect that this is a hard limit, that cannot be overridden by keep-alive requests. However, I may give it a try tommorrow when the next connection is due... |
I have heard of some whacky internet providers doing things like that, if you haven't talked to them about it, or read your contract, then that might be your problem too.
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you need to check dialin config like wvdial.conf, or
in /etc/ppp/ there are bunch of configs, all depends how do you dialout, ( with what program) |
I found /etc/ppp/ppp.conf on the machine (and there is no vwdial.conf or conf files of any other dial-out programs - at least so far as I can judge).
So, is /etc/ppp/ppp.conf the place where a timed shutdown of dial-out connection (after 1h) can be given? How? I just came to the idea that there may be a unix command that establishes a ppp connection, and an other that disconnects it. If so these may be given e.g. in the root user's crontab. Am I right? P.S. I have to make pre-fabricated ideas, because the daily one-hour ON state of that connection is short and so slow via SSH that I hardly have time to anything once connected. |
Just look at it. If you don't want to bring ppp.conf up in an editor, enter this:
less ppp.conf You can look at the file without altering it in any way. If you see something that looks like a timing control entry, then get out of the file by hitting the "q" key. Then open it up in your favorite editor. |
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