Changing KPPP Auto-Disconnect..?

[Sgood1971]

Occasionally, I have to (shudder) use my dialup connection while travelling, etc... My problem is that after x amount of minutes it will disconnect if I leave the connection inactive. Is there any way to bump this time limit up or disable it?

[JohnT]

I have heard of some writing a small script to ping their ISP every "X" number of minutes.
I remember when I was on dial-up my ISP would check my activity every 20 minutes.

This is an excerpt from KPPP FAQ:


pppd died - The remote system is required to authenticate itself ...
As far as I can tell there are two causes for this problem:

* /etc/ppp/options contains the auth option. Simply put a # comment character in front and try again.
* Your system already has a default route. Have you set up a local network ? In thise case recent versions of pppd will behave as if the auth had been specified. To override this you may add noauth to the pppd arguments in kppp' setup dialog. Alternatively you could take down the local network prior to dialing in. I'd be thankful if someone could provide instructions on how to peacefully combine the two network connections.