[ILUG] Surf No Limits problems

[dollar at esatclear.ie]

I get the same all every so often with my box witch has a 28000bs modem.
some times the connectioin will stay up form 6pm  till 7 the following
morining and some times I loose the ppp connection after 5 min. 

Is it really possable for some one to kill my ppp conection by attacking
some port above 1024?

D.

On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Niall wrote:

> Surf No Limits regularly disconnects me - I come back to my box and I see a
> pop-up from kppp saying "The pppd has exited unexpectedly".  Note that this
> is not just from inactivity which is of course understandable - it dies in
> the middle of file transfers too, which is annoying. I know many of you use
> Surf No Limits and keep connections up all weekend downloading ISO images,
> so does Esat just hate me or is this a regular thing with others too ?
> 
> Having accepted that this is happening, I'm looking at using wvdial with
> automatic redial in combination with wget to try to get over this problem.
> I've one small question about that - there's a timeout option with wvget
> which defaults to 900 seconds, which seems rather long, although the manual
> says 
> 
> Please do not lower the default timeout value with this option
> unless you know what you are doing.
> 
> It seems to me that a somewhat lower timeout (maybe 30 seconds) would be
> better for my purposes. Any comments ?
> 
> 
> Kindest regards,
> 
> 
> Niall  O Broin
> 
> 
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