Stefan Monnier wrote:
>>>> At the moment if I yank the ethernet cable the router does not
>>>> switch to umts automatically. What I do usually is to ssh in the
>>>> router and bring up the umts connection. Is there a way to
>>>> automatize this?
>>>>
>>> Maybe there's an ifplugd package you could use?
>>>
>> Or netplugd (although no idea if it's present on OpenWrt).
>>
>
> Note that there are two ways to look at the problem:
> 1- detect when the cable gets disconnected. That's what netplugd and
> ifplugd do.
> 2- detect when the network is not responsive.
> If the cable is unplugged, the network will not be responsive, but the
> reverse is not necessarily true.
>
>
the original question was about failing over from ethernet... well if
that ethernet is actually a DSL uplink you can put a script in
/etc/ppp/ip-down.d, since I presume that is actually what you want
harald
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