On Sunday 26 January 2003 14:42, Ray Olszewski wrote: > Right. What we need to see if the *abnormal* situation that is causing the > problem. For example, if your ppp0 interface loses its configuration from > the ISP end, but the Bering end does not bring the interface down, then it > will still be present, still be detected by your keepalinve script ... so > the script will not try to restart it. The same problem will present itself > in your idea of just restarting the interface every 15 minutes.
Unfortunately I cannot summon an abnormal situation on demand. :) > Without those diagnostics from an actual failure, all I can do is guess as > to what is going on. But you might consider rewriting the keepalive script > so that instead of checking if ppp0 is up, it checks if it is working (say, > by pinging the other end of the PtP link). If it is not, then bring it > down, then back up. I was thinking along the same lines. I would have to bring DOWN the interface first and then bring it back up. A question: how do I know what the IP of the Peer is for my ADSL? Right now I'm pinging an arbitrary host (happens to be the web server of my ISP. For a while, I was pinging google by domain name). Are there good hosts to "ping"? -- -- Arcana ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
