This application monitors your dial-up networking sessions and tries to keep you connected to your host by periodically:
- Querying the connection status and reconnecting you if necessary.
- Sending data signals to fool the host's idling detector.
COMMANDS
- Session: Information about your session.
- Scheduler:
- Verify it for...: How long Rascal should check a successful connection (0 means forever).
- every...: How often Rascal should check the connection (0 means never).
- Try restoring it...: Number of redial attempts to make (0 means never).
- every...: Number of seconds between redial batches (0 means never).
- Send a signal every...: How often Rascal should simulate network activity (0 means never).
- Keep this window on top: Keep the window on top of all the others.
- Do not dial-up first: Wait for another service to dial-up before monitoring.
- Test mode: Simulate connection operations.
- Fail connections in test mode: Simulate connection failures (in test mode).
- Detected time...: Total connect time is shown here.
- Log: The operations log is displayed here.
- Close: Exit the application.
- Help: Display this window.
- About: Display information about this product.
- Stop/Start: Monitor toggle switch.
- Dial: Connect.
- Hang up: Disconnect.
- Verify: Log the connection status.
- Send signal: Send a dummy signal via the network.
- Clear Log: Empty the log window.
TIPS
- All settings take effect on the fly.
- This application can also run hidden by specifying the /hidden command line argument.
EXAMPLES
(A) You would like to connect to your Internet provider, and keep the connection alive to allow a friend to download certain files from your computer, while you go run some errands. You know from your Internet provider that your computer gets disconnected whenever a 10 second idle period is detected on the line:
1- Select the phone entry corresponding to your provider.
2- Enter the user name and password your provider has assigned you.
3- Enter 9 in the the "Verify every..." and the "Send a signal every..." text fields.
4- Press the "Start" button if the service is not already running.
(B) In example (A), Rascal kept your computer connected until someone stopped it manually. This time, you decide to maintain your computer connected for only two hours:
1- Follow the instructions outlined in (A).
2- Enter 7200 (i.e. 2 hours) in the "Verify it for..." text field. After 2 hours, the connection can be timed-out by your Internet provider.