I'd love to see this, but I really don't see how it could be implemented.
> At present, if you have a PPP connection up
> and running, all it takes is a single ping occasionally to keep the
> connection alive.
Less frequently than pings, I see a POP connection every N-1 minutes
when I have the idle set to N minutes, or an IRC session, which will
generate continuous traffic with no input from the user. Or a telnet
session to a shell account running IRC. Or what about auto refresh web
pages?
While you could ignore POP and ICMP traffic when determining idleness,
you can't ignore IRC or telnet or WWW traffic. And if you can't come
up with a solution that works, there's probably no point in
implementing something that users will be able to easily defeat.
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