Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 01:37:52 EST From: Andrea Venturoli <ml.ventu@flashnet.it> To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Two ISP connections Message-ID: <200312110037.hBB0bpb6066726@soth.ventu>
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** Reply to note from Barney Wolff <barney@databus.com> Wed, 10 Dec 2003 11:39:00 -0500
> I don't know of anything published that does this, but it's easy to
> write a perl or shell script that pings the router at the adsl isp
> and does the necessary things when it disappears and reappears.
Mmh, only problem is one of the ISP is famous for blocking ICMP as a whole, so no pings work. I haven't tried this
particular line yet, but I may need to use come other protocol.
> You start it from /usr/local/etc/rc.d (Hint - use nohup to keep it running).
Why nohup?
> Without getting much fancier than is reasonable, existing connections
> will be dropped at switchovers.
I can easily live with that.
> I have a script that does similar things running here; email me if you
> want it.
Why not! If you don't mind, the please send it to me :)
bye & Thanks
av.
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