From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 9 16:48:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B44437B400 for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 16:48:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp02.wxs.nl (smtp02.wxs.nl [195.121.6.54]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EACE043E09 for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 16:48:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl) Received: from cybertron.kruijff ([213.10.151.186]) by smtp02.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id GZ0A4G00.XX1; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 01:48:16 +0200 Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 01:47:56 +0200 From: Alex X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.53d) Reply-To: freebsd-reply@akruijff.dds.nl X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <789963697.20020710014756@dds.nl> To: Lord Raiden Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Need help with network issue In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.20020709192110.009626b0@pop.netzero.net> References: <4.2.0.58.20020709192110.009626b0@pop.netzero.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Wednesday, July 10, 2002, 1:26:26 AM, you wrote: LR> HI all. I'm getting complaints from one of our remote sites that they're LR> experiencing periodical lost of network connectivity, but the internal lan LR> is fine. I have already pealed through the lan and determined that the LR> problem lies in our internet connection. We're running 768k DSL off this LR> site and I'm looking for a way to have the server monitor the connection LR> and throw data out there every 2-5 minutes to see if there is a connection LR> and if not, record the time and date that this happened. I want to create LR> a log for the next 48 hours to see if this is just a hickup or a real LR> problem. ISP says nothings wrong, but I had a similar issue from another LR> location earlier last night as well, but it seems to have cleared LR> up. Basically I'm trying to see if it was a hickup in the internet or if LR> I've got some bigger problems to deal with through our local providers. It LR> just seems odd that two different providers would have network glitches LR> like this in the same night, but at slightly different times. LR> Any suggestions on how to do this would help. I'm not going to setup a LR> cron job to do a ping every 2 minutes. That won't tell me much of LR> anything. I want something a little more detailed. Thanks. LR> - The Raiden Knows LR> "Remember amateurs built the ark -- professionals built the Titanic." - LR> Unknown LR> "Just when you think you have life figured out and all is going well, watch LR> your step, for you are about to fall." - Ancient Proverb LR> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org LR> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message Dear Lord, I think you ISP is right. I also have ADSL and used pptpclient to connect to it. I had frequent disco's witch became worse when time went by. Mostly with heavy use. My thought on this is that the line was dropped when the CPU was overloaded and those couldn't maintain the connection for that time. Since then i switched to letting my modem build the connection. I've had no problem since. -- Best regards, Alex The FreeBSD handbook http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message