Hi Robert.
> My ISP kills my ISDN connection every 8 hours and so I have
> to reconnect (of course I get a new dynamic IP, but doesn't
> matter)
My ISP disconnects after 60 minutes, and I'm set up to dial
straight back in. However, I'm not on an ISDN connection, so
YMMV.
> Does someone know how reconnect automatically without just
> setting dialing to "auto" and ensure that there is always a
> minium traffic to autodial after disconnection.
I use wvdial to set up my connection, and it reconnects on
disconnect by default. You may wish to look into doing that.
> How can I do something like an event-handler to force
> reconnect exactly that second when it happens?
With wvdial you don't need to.
> I also want to send my new dynamic IP immediately after
> reconnect to dynhost.com. I've no idea where to insert the
> execution of a script. I don't want to do lame cron jobs
> but a real event-handler script.
That's the easy part if you're using pppd to run your link: Every
time pppd connects, it runs /etc/ppp/ip-up which performs certain
standard tasks, then runs /etc/ppp/ip-up.local with the same set
of parameters.
As a result, all you have to do is to create a script called
something like `updatedns` that takes as its only parameter the
current dynamic DNS to be updated with, and performs whatever is
required to update the server, then put the following line in
/etc/ppp/ip-up.local to run it:
/usr/local/sbin/updatedns $4
That assumes you dropped the updatedns script into the specified
directory.
> Any help would be appreciated.
NP.
Best wishes from Riley GM7GOD / KB8PPG.
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