Subject: Re: idle timeouts from isp
To: gabriel rosenkoetter <gr@eclipsed.net>
From: Jukka Marin <jmarin@pyy.jmp.fi>
List: port-i386
Date: 11/03/2001 21:41:12 
On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 02:37:13PM -0500, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 08:16:00PM +0200, Jukka Marin wrote:
> > ping?
> 
> In a user's crontab:
> 
> */5 * * * * ping -c 1 -n <DNS>
> 
> perhaps?

ping also has option -i for interval in seconds.  No need for cron..

  -jm