Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 01:37:52 EST From: Andrea Venturoli <ml.ventu@flashnet.it> To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Two ISP connections Message-ID: <200312110037.hBB0bpb6066726@soth.ventu>
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** Reply to note from Barney Wolff <barney@databus.com> Wed, 10 Dec 2003 11:39:00 -0500 > I don't know of anything published that does this, but it's easy to > write a perl or shell script that pings the router at the adsl isp > and does the necessary things when it disappears and reappears. Mmh, only problem is one of the ISP is famous for blocking ICMP as a whole, so no pings work. I haven't tried this particular line yet, but I may need to use come other protocol. > You start it from /usr/local/etc/rc.d (Hint - use nohup to keep it running). Why nohup? > Without getting much fancier than is reasonable, existing connections > will be dropped at switchovers. I can easily live with that. > I have a script that does similar things running here; email me if you > want it. Why not! If you don't mind, the please send it to me :) bye & Thanks av.
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