Two ISP connections

[Andrea Venturoli]

** Reply to note from Barney Wolff <barney at 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.