Re: [Sheflug] Tenuous Connection - More stupid newbie problems

["Chris J/#6" <nospam [at] nccnet.co.uk>]

> 			The new set up is less broken than before. Wvdial
> works and I can use Netscape to browse the web. However it breaks the
> connection after only a few seconds if it is idle, also none of the other
> internet type programs appear to work. I guess I will have to dig out the
> configuration files. Which config files do I need to dig out and where are
> they?

A quick "hack" to keeping the connection going tits up would be in another 
terminal, or as a background task have a 'ping' going to a close machine (ie, 
one of your ISP's boxes), as then there is activity. There are other ways ... 
do a time sync with your ISP every 5 mins or so (rdate/netdate), pull back 
email (fetchmail or some other POP-type process).

> 
> 			There is still no progress with the ethernet
> connection between the two PC's.
> 

What config have you at the moment? ie, what IP address does each machine 
(ifconfig in linux, winipcfg in win98/win95) have? And what is in the routing 
tables (route/'netstat -r' in linux, route print in win95/98, or winipcfg can 
tell the default gateway).


> 
> 	PS emacs and vi are just editors, everyone should choose their own
> and it should be no concern for anyone else.
> 

ooo...you'll have the emacs people drawing daggers for calling emacs "just" 
an editor :-) emacs vs. vi wars are the epitome of UNIX. You'd have seen one 
sooner or later. Some are fairly jest-like and friendly (like 'ere), but I've 
seen some turn into right flame-fests on comp.unix.* and comp.os.linux.* 
before now...

Chris...


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