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From: seventek@nntp.best.com (Caffiene Dependent)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Ever backgrounded a ping or gotten fping to work???
Date: 4 Sep 1996 18:32:40 GMT
Organization: Best Internet Communications
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Ken Bigelow (kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com) wrote:
: Adrian Goins wrote:
: >
: > I've got a FRAD that keeps bouncing our frame circuit, but all i have
: > to do it kill and restart the pppd and it works again. I'd like to be
: > able to background a ping, but it won't do it from a script. It
: > always suspends or stops.
: >
: > I tried to compile fping, but it seems too damn tempermental to behave
: > (or even to compile)
: >
: > Anyone got some nifty solution for this???
: >
: > Thanks -
: I'm not completely certain just what you have in mind here, but I gater
: it's essentially the same as what I do on my site to verify that my
: connection is still up. If so, you *can* run ping from a script, as long
: as you use its output directly inline. My linechek script runs every 5
: minutes from the cron daemon, and looks like this:
: conn=`ping -c 1 205.252.116.10 | grep "0 packets received"`
: if [ "X${conn}" != "X" ]
: then
: /etc/ppp/ip-down
: fi
Of coures you conld do something like this in your rc.local:
ping -qi 120
This can be backgrounded and will only display data if it cannot
reach the remote host.
If you're doing a ppp -auto this will bring up the connection if it fails
as well. This leaves you with a maximum of 2 minutes downtime.
--BEn