[UFO Chicago] ppp0 hanging

[Peter A. Peterson II]

Quoting Nate Riffe:
> The premise behind PPPoE is that when your computer is off, it is no
> longer using its IP address, even if the DSL is technically still
> active.  So ISPs devised this scheme (an evil scheme I think) so
> that when you turn your computer on, it "connects" and when you turn
> it off it "disconnects" from the ISP.  That way, when your computer
> is not on, its IP address can return to the pool of available
> addresses and be reassigned to another user.  I think it's evil for
> two reasons: First of all, it is yet another potential point of
> failure in broadband services that implement it (a problem which you
> are experiencing in the form of timeouts), and secondly it is a
> violation in principle of the "Always
> On" quality that broadband providers are selling to people.

One way around this debacle is to leave your computer always on, and
run something like "ping movealong.org -i 10" which will ping Nate's
box every ten seconds. No more timing out!

And also leave your computer on all the time.

pedro