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Date:      Wed, 06 Mar 2002 19:16:27 +0000
From:      Brian Somers <brian@freebsd-services.com>
To:        Gary Jennejohn <garyj@jennejohn.org>
Cc:        "Angelo a.k.a shagy" <shagy@rocketmail.com>, freebsd-isdn@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: checking line status 
Message-ID:  <200203061916.g26JGRH6030505@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>
In-Reply-To: Message from Gary Jennejohn <garyj@jennejohn.org>  of "Mon, 04 Mar 2002 21:23:35 %2B0100." <200203042023.g24KNZil002991@peedub.jennejohn.org> 

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> "Angelo a.k.a shagy" writes:
> > Greetings, I am using a Fritz isdn card (using
> > user-land ppp) with a 128K connection.  
> > 
> > I was wondering how can I check to see if the second
> > line is active or not, or the first line for that
> > matter.  
> > 
> > I used to have a TA which had nice little lights for
> > each line. I was able see when either line was up or
> > down :)
> > 
> 
> ``show links'' maybe ? Read the ppp manpage, there are a lot
> of show commands.
> 
> ---
> Gary Jennejohn / garyj@jennejohn.org gj@freebsd.org

FWIW I installed a crude-but-useful cgi program at a customers 
site - it interrogates ppp (via pppctl) and publishes the 
information on a web site.

Works quite well....
-- 
Brian <brian@freebsd-services.com>                <brian@Awfulhak.org>
      http://www.freebsd-services.com/        <brian@[uk.]FreeBSD.org>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !      <brian@[uk.]OpenBSD.org>

#! /bin/sh

PAGE=/cgi-bin/status.cgi

cat <<eof
Content-type: text/html

<html>

  <head>
    <title>Internet connection status</title>
    <meta http-equiv=refresh content="1; URL=$PAGE">
  </head>

  <body bgproperties=fixed bgcolor=black text=yellow link=white vlink=gray ALINK
=lightblue>

  <pre>
$(pppctl /var/run/ppp-adsl show links)
  </pre>
  <pre>
$(pppctl /var/run/ppp-adsl show ipcp | tail -6)
  </pre>

  </body>

</html>
eof



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