Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2006 17:38:58 +0200 From: "Pietro Cerutti" <pietro.cerutti@gmail.com> To: "Paul Hamilton" <paulh@bdug.org.au>, "freebsd questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: using fping to monitor internet connection status Message-ID: <e572718c0607060838l148554b1h739d50c0fdfb197d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <032f01c6a10e$494e4c40$6600a8c0@w2k2> References: <032f01c6a10e$494e4c40$6600a8c0@w2k2>
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On 7/6/06, Paul Hamilton <paulh@bdug.org.au> wrote: > Hi, Hallo, > > I need to monitor a number of IP addresses, so that if they ALL go down (say > three IP's), then that is a pretty good indication that my server has lost > internet connectivity. [snip] > Any idea's on a ping tool or simple script? #!/bin/sh err=2 # Ping return value on error ping -c1 host1 > /dev/null 2>&1 host1=$? ping -c1 host2 > /dev/null 2>&1 host2=$? ping -c3 host3 > /dev/null 2>&1 host3=$? if [ $host1 -gt $err -a $host2 -gt $err -a $host3 -gt $err ]; then echo "Network is down..." fi Could surely be refined, but it works ;-) > Regards, > > Paul Hamilton > Busselton, 6280 > Australia > Regards, -- Pietro Cerutti ICQ: 117293691 PGP: 0x9571F78E - ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML e-mail and proprietary attachments www.asciiribbon.org
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