From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 16 10:38:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA15083 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 10:38:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA15024 for ; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 10:38:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA10517; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 10:38:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 10:38:00 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: "Alex N. Zhuravlev" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I need a device which can signalize the connection lost In-Reply-To: <199802130242.JAA11446@keep.scn.ru> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 13 Feb 1998, Alex N. Zhuravlev wrote: > I need a device and software with it which can show me a presence of my > connection to my ISP. I've got Cisco 2511 as a router and have a freebsd > box. I have one idea ... I can learn about connection via snmp from > freebsd box snmp client to cisco ... But what to do further ... How to > make some kind of a light to turn on or some sound maybe ... Maybe > somebody already invent smth common ??? If a software monitor is OK, you could have a cron task that pings the cisco every so often and sticks the reports on a web page or similar, so if the connection is lost, it signal as desired. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message