The standard way I have found is to pick a box (IP address with high uptime) somewhere on the Internet and then ping it. If you cannot ping then restart the
connection. Putting this into a infinite loop with a call to sleep so it checks every minute or so, or have cron do it every minute. --- Darcy Brodie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello everyone > > I have been trying to find a simple solution for an on going problem. > > I have a Linux based firewall / router located out of town. It connects > to the Internet via a satellite connection (the only other option is > dial-up internet) > Due to several factors, at times the connection can be less than > favorable, and we have to go and manually obtain the IP address from > the ISP (after someone discovers that there is no connection again) > When I am there, I have found is that simply restarting the network > service will re-establish the connection. > > > Is there a way. that the Linux machine can monitor the status of the > incoming connection from the ISP, and attempt to restore the connection > if it is lost? And continue to attempt to re-connect to the ISP until > connection is restored (sometimes, this can be hours due to weather). > > > Darcy > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying > _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
