IS the wan IP address static? If so can you ping it if the cable is up? If it is static and you can ping it if cable is up and not ping when the cable is down (obvisously) then there is your check.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of gene Martinez Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 12:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [SA-list] Cable access down then up?? What I found is the WAN ip address is not pingable on dial up, but does that help me?? Default gateway and DNS are pingable on dialup. At 12:12 PM 7/9/04 -0500, you wrote: >You could possibly check the default gateway. Sometimes these are not >accessible from the internet. You would need to dial out and verify. >Otherwise if you can ensure that your ip is released and then when you get >an ip again you will know it's back up. I am think a url check on your >router perhaps. > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf >Of gene Martinez >Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 11:07 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [SA-list] Cable access down then up?? > >I have cable internet access. I now know that I can check the DNS server >with Salive to see it the cable is down. I have a router that has both >cable/dsl access and dial-up. I can use Salive to switch when the cable >goes down. What can I check to see if the cable is back up??? I can't >really use the DNS check because if this is a local cable issue, the DNS >will still be up and now that I have dialed to the internet I will see it >as good. My local cable can still be down so I don't want to switch back. >What can I check to see if the cable is really back up???? > >Thanks > >Gene >Regards, > >Gene > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.eclipse.net/~njkat > >-------------- > >[This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] > >To unsubscribe from a list, send a mail message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >With the following in the body of the message: > unsubscribe SAlive > > >-------------- > >[This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] > >To unsubscribe from a list, send a mail message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >With the following in the body of the message: > unsubscribe SAlive > > Regards, Gene [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.eclipse.net/~njkat -------------- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] To unsubscribe from a list, send a mail message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] With the following in the body of the message: unsubscribe SAlive -------------- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] To unsubscribe from a list, send a mail message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] With the following in the body of the message: unsubscribe SAlive
