Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 21:35:56 -0800 From: Micah <micahjon@ywave.com> To: brianjohn@fusemail.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: script to monitor internet connection Message-ID: <43BF533C.6050206@ywave.com> In-Reply-To: <52231.71.37.238.58.1136553753.fusewebmail-19592@webmail.fusemail.com> References: <52231.71.37.238.58.1136553753.fusewebmail-19592@webmail.fusemail.com>
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Brian John wrote: > Hello, > I would like to write a script to monitor my internet connection status. > My home connection goes down fairly often and I would like to get an idea > for just how often it goes down and if possible how long it goes down for. > Could someone help me write a script that will check my connection to the > internet and log whenever it goes down and possibly how long it goes down > for? I want to have some evidence to give to my ISP that my connection is > going down. > > Thanks > > /Brian If there really is nothing in the ports collection or google, you might start with pinging from a cron job. Something like: #!/bin/sh ping -c 1 my.isps.main.server.example.com 2> /dev/null > /dev/null echo `date`: Ping returned $? >> /var/log/ispevidence.log HTH, Micah
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