From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 19 17:18:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web12005.mail.yahoo.com (web12005.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.172.213]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3318537B405 for ; Thu, 19 Jul 2001 17:18:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsd2000au@yahoo.com.au) Message-ID: <20010720001833.10577.qmail@web12005.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [61.9.188.59] by web12005.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 20 Jul 2001 10:18:33 EST Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 10:18:33 +1000 (EST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Keith=20Spencer?= Subject: Q->how to redial if dhcp allocates bad IP ??? To: fbsd MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 Hi all, I have an interesting problem for the scripting wizards about the listserv. Telstra in Australia has implemented ADSL and I am a customer (my school) I got pppoe working no sweat. BUT the ISP can allocate randomaly an IP from 144..... or 61... address spaces They have an admitted issue routing 144 addresses & if my gateway gets one the schools net access drops out (telstra drops the connection about every 24 hrs. This is a pain in the butt! Q.. How can I have something a script etc fire after a dialin has occurred to check the ip and redial until a 61.9... address is allocated? TRICKY? I would have no idea where to start because I come from a windows background (coding etc) but I am a convert to FBSD it is very cool. TIA Keith _____________________________________________________________________________ http://messenger.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Messenger - Voice chat, mail alerts, stock quotes and favourite news and lots more! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message