Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > On Monday 04 May 2009 11:38:33 Ramkumar R wrote: > >> * Switching requires that you run a daemon that keeps pinging the >> ISP's gateway to check if the link is up. When the link goes down, it >> should automatically take the current ethernet interface down and >> bring up the other interface. I'm not sure it's worth the trouble. >> > > my experience with bsnl/airtel is that even if you can ping the gateway, the > line may still be down further up the chain. You need to be able to ping > something like google.com through the relevant ethernet card. > True. Mostly it is the DNS servers that don't come up properly.
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