The connection be monitored if effecivly a LAN connection, (it gets treated at
eth0) that will always show in ifconfig, unlike a ppp connection. If the link
fails, the system will lose all connectivity with the internet - this is what I
want to trigger the paging.
- Doug
George Vieira wrote:
> My suggestion is dependant on the system configuration.
>
> 1. If you have only 1 PPP connection then just `ifconfig | grep ppp0` or
> similar...
> 2. if you have multiple PPP connections like my setup then you can do a `ps
> -ef | grep ppp-watch ifcfg-ppp3` if ppp3 is the connection to the internet
> that you use...
>
> Sorry my last message was to say "Want the info?" not "What"..
>
> thanks,
> George Vieira
> Network Administrator
> Citadel Computer Systems P/L
> http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Doug Stalker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, 17 May 2000 3:09 PM
> To: SLUG
> Subject: [SLUG] Making linux page a message if the Network Connection
> goes down.
>
> I'm about to set up a system to monitor an internet connection, and I
> want it to send an SMS message to me if it's access to the internet goes
> down.
>
> The paging will be handled through vodafones modem to SMS service; it
> should be easy to write a script that will do the actual paging.
>
> My question is what should I use for the actual monitoring? A simple
> script that pings at regular intervals and pages if it fails too many
> times would work, but I'm sure there are programs out there that are a
> bit more comprehensive/reliable.
>
> - Doug
>
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