Internet Connection Performance Log Daemon icpld is a nice solution. I found no Debian package that logs when internet connections cease working, although this may be included as a minor aspect of some Debian package having broader purposes.
I found this package at http://freshmeat.net/projects/icpld/ Now I can tell when and for how long my ADSL service fails, so I can better infer internet drop causes (me or Verizon). Here is an icpld response for one of 8 drops in my ADSL connection last night, elicited with "icpld -log -m" or from /var/log/icpld.log, IPv4: Connection down: Wed Jun 9 22:30:03 2004 IPv4: connection up: Wed Jun 9 22:41:09 2004 Down for: 00:11:06 IPv4 Total: 00:26:30 IPv4 connection dropped 6 times. This particular drop was down for 11 minutes, while my connection has been down 6 times for a total of 26 minutes since this daemon started yesterday. This icpld requires me to choose 2 IP addresses on the network I want to check -- I chose 2 IP addresses of my IP service provider, Verizon. The default was to attempt an ICMP connection every 8 seconds, which I changed to 127 seconds in the configuration file /usr/local/etc/icpld.conf I added my own /etc/init.d/icpld to run icpld as a daemon with each boot, essentially DAEMON=/usr/local/bin/icpld if [ -z $(/bin/pidof icpld) ]; then #if icpld not running. # "icpld -quit" would not remove file missing a running icpld process; # so if process is not running (as when system crashes), # then I remove any icpld.pid. /bin/rm -f ~/.icpld/icpld.pid #created by icpld on each startup. echo -n "Starting Internet Connection Performance Logging Daemon: icpld" /sbin/start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --exec $DAEMON >/dev/null fi In the configuration file, I set nobeep=false cmd4dn=play /usr/share/games/frozen-bubble/snd/stick.wav cmd4up=play /usr/share/games/frozen-bubble/snd/rebound.wav so I hear a decreasing tone or an increasing tone when my ADSL connection goes down or up, respectively. This helps the mind-meld between my computer and myself. On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 04:26:32PM -0400, Jameson C. Burt wrote: > I look for a command/daemon that will keep a history of my > DSL-connection downtime. > > My Verizon ADSL connection has been down about 60% of the > time for 3 weeks, so I want to log the actual downtimes. > For example, in a file like /var/log/eth1-downtime > I would like to see lines like > June 2 10:14am to 7:33pm > June 2 8:45pm to 10:04pm > June 3 2:31am to 7:14am > > > -- > Jameson C. Burt, NJ9L Fairfax, Virginia, USA > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.coost.com > (202) 690-0380 (work) -- Jameson C. Burt, NJ9L Fairfax, Virginia, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.coost.com (202) 690-0380 (work)
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