Topic: Unreliable link from ISP

[damjan]

I would like to have some solution where SME would restablish link after the link from ISP is lost.

Now there is a situation where I have to restart SME (or their services) to reestablish the link back.

Is there some solution where SME would check link, and if there is no response it will automatically restarting conecting services as long the link is up?


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Damjan

[Michael Soulier]

damjan wrote:

> I would like to have some solution where SME would restablish
> link after the link from ISP is lost.

Works for me. What kind of link is it? DSL, Cable modem, dial-up, ISDN? More details please.

If you think you've found a bug, email smebugs@mitel.com as always.

Mike

[damjan]

It is a missing feature in situation like this:
1. ADSL access falls
2. Users cant get on the net, they are geting upset, so they are looking for a solution.
3. They made reboot of the SME because they are thinking that this will solved an issue...
4. SME reboots but w/o ADSL support (FAILED), becuse the ADSL connection can't be established
5. After ADSL is finally up, users need to reboot SME once again.

So I think that it would be nice if there will be some implementation of checking for interent connection (time interval aprox 15 min). If link in not extablish SME will restart network services by itself. This restarting will be done till the moment when internet connections wil be established again.

Please correct me if this feature is already implement.

Br
Damjan

[Levien van Zon]

I have more or less the same problem with ADSL (using the adsl4linux-package). We keep losing our connection, probably due to the broken PPTP-stuff in 5.6. I simply created a cron job that checks for the existence of a pptp pid-file, and tries to re-establish the connection if needed. Can't say it's 100% reliable, but it seems to do the job fairly well for now...

Anyone know if there is a fix for the pptp-problems yet?

Regards,
Levien