On Wed, Oct 01, 2014 at 11:10:12AM -0400, Jeff wrote: > I have a very unreliable ISP (approximately 97% uptime). Many of the times > that they go > down, I'm connected and can ping within their limited network, but can't get > to the > "outside world". In these cases, I have an alternate slow speed connection > that I use. > Right now, I manually change the default route and use pfctl to invoke an > alternate > pf.conf file. > > I'm thinking that OpenOSPF, BIRD or one of the other routing oriented daemons > might be a > way to automate switching back and forth. > > Does anyone suggestions on effective ways to automate/manage this? > > Thanks! > Jeff
Have you considered using ifstated(8) with external tests (e.g. ping)? See the ifstated.conf(5) man page.
