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From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
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what is this, dsl, cable, dialup modem?

Ted

>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
>[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Brian John
>Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 5:23 AM
>To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
>Subject: script to monitor internet connection
>
>
>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
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