From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 8 11:45:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from spool.webzone.net (mail.webzone.net [205.219.23.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D01F14BE6 for ; Tue, 8 Jun 1999 11:45:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from murban@webzone.net) Received: from webzone.net ([208.152.100.108]) by spool.webzone.net (post.office MTA v2.0 0813 ID# 0-12689) with ESMTP id AAA12270 for ; Tue, 8 Jun 1999 13:49:40 -0500 Message-ID: <375D6553.FDD2ABA@webzone.net> Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 13:47:47 -0500 From: Mike Urban Reply-To: murban@webzone.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.07 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.36 i686) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Automatically redialing internet connection? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am going to be running a server that will have a full time connection to the internet via a modem and dedicated line. My question is this: Is there a simple way for me to set it up so that it will monitor the modem and automatically restart the connection if it detects a disconnect? The server will be accepting incoming requests, so simply setting it up to dial whenever the connection is needed is not good enough. Basically what I need is something that can monitor the modem, and automatically restart the connection if it dies.. Could this be done through a simple shell script maybe? Please try to explain in relativly simple terms as I am pretty new to FreeBSD and UNIX in general. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Mike. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message