ADSL Keep A Live

1.   Introduction
1.1   ADSL Keep A Live Cron

Introduction

Although my ISP allows "unlimited" usage it does occasionally hang up my connection, after periods of inactivity. This is most annoying. So I have created a very simple, and crude, keep alive cron job.

ADSL Keep A Live Cron

 nano /etc/cron.d/adslkeepalive 

Sample

 #  This ping my ISP every 30 minutes
 07,37 * * * *  root  ping -w 60 -c 10 relay.plus.net

$Id: ADSLKeepAlive,v 1.2 2008/01/07 13:08:10 martin Exp $