Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.

Keeping an ISDN line open

Author:Dave Winer
Posted:5/19/1999; 8:20:25 AM
Topic:Configuring mainResponder apps for dialup testing
Msg #:6465 (In response to 6463)
Prev/Next:6464 / 6466

I used to have an ISDN line and operated www.scripting.com thru it, it's relatively easy to keep the ISDN line up, if that's the question. You have to have a fulltime net connection if you want people from outside your LAN to have access. If all you want to do is to test it on your LAN, no problem, just do it, it doesn't matter if the ISDN line is up or down.

In other words, it isn't really a Frontier question, it's a networking question. If what you want to do is keep the ISDN line open, just install a scheduled everyMinute script that reads a small page or graphic from some known web server that's not on your LAN. The key Frontier verb for this is tcp.httpClient.

Summary

If you put this script at user.scheduler.everyMinute.keepIsdnOpen:

tcp.httpclient (server:"www.scripting.com", path:"space.gif")

That should do it.

(You might want to pick a server that's closer to home!)

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