Setting Multilink for one line to drop off in low traffic

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From: John Wirt (someone_at_microsoft.com)
Date: 12/01/04 

Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 22:45:18 -0500

I use Multilink on my Dialup connection. I get 100bps without any trouble
and it is reliable.

I would like to configure the connection so that one line drops off after,
say, 30 minutes, while the other one stays on. Then, when I need the extra
capacity, I will manually dial the second line. This works.

For reasons I canot figure out, one line drops off by itself sometimes. This
never happens when the Multilink is busy but when the line is quiet for an
hour or more, sometimes it Drops off. I've found that if I click on teh
connection, select the Details tab, the line that has dropped off, and then
click on resume, DUN redials the second line and connects it with no jerk in
the connection. The bandwdith just doubles. Pretty slick. I don't know if
Multilink is supposed to work this way but it does.

The problem is that I have found no way of setting the Idle time on the
second line to some fixed value. I've found that if I set it to a fixed
value, the other line is switched to that, too, and vice versa. If I set the
drop off to "Never" both lines are never (but one stills drops off --
sometimes -- after an hour or more of idle time).

So what I would like to do is get control of this capability and set the
Idle time to Never on one line and 30 mintues on the other, or something
like that.

Does anyone know how to do this?

Thank you.

John Wirt

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