Looking for a Internet Traffic Producing Software (to trick isp)

[lukelukeluke]

Hello there all,

I'm running an apache server at home. I found out that i cant make connection fro moutside after a timeout, because my isp is terminateing the internet connection after a while of beeing idle.
Well to make a way around that, i found an application to simuate internet connection, a tool called KDA (

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/win/26802).

Well but the only problem is that KDA crashes very often!
Now, i wanted to ask if anyone knows another application to simulate internet connection.
I'm running windows 2000 server. Is there a way to create a batch file which culd do that?
I know its possible in Linux that you have schedules where you can say every 2 mins there should be inet traffic. Is there such thing in windows too?

Thanks alot for the useful answers, i'm sure it will help other peoples too....
Thanks, bye

 

[thedaver]

Put a "ping -n 3

http://www.cisco.com"

in as a scheduled task

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[manarth]

awww, poor cisco!

better yet:

ping -n 3 [COLOR=red]URL_for_your_ISPs_webpage[/color]

e.g.
ping -n 3 [URL unfurl="true"]www.verizon.com[/URL]

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[lukelukeluke]

thanks both for these solutions which i belive is for windows.
Does anyone know something for linux too?

for example a command for the bash?
i mean, i could also be a command which retypes the last used command after its done, i mean something like this:

ping xxx; sleep 60; (here some command to retype the whole line)
or could i make an alias command which does itself?
for example:
alias trickisp ping xxx; sleep 60; trickisp

thanks for further help.
Cheers, Lucas

 

[manarth]

if you're on linux, you can still use ping in the bash shell; set it to run as a cron job.

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[thedaver]

ping -c3

http://www.ispurl.tld"

Add it as a crontab entry for every five minutes



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[lukelukeluke]

thanks alot for the feedbacks guys.

It seemed to work now, my internet connection doesnt disconnect anmore in idle mode...