Topic: Modem control.

[Steven Lewis]

e-smith manager modem control. Connect, disconnect, and reconnect.

[Chuck Waite]

For places in the world that charge for local calls (e.g. the UK & Australia), I think it would -really- help to have a simple way for the e-smith box to tell us how many telephone calls were made, maybe their lengths (e.g. in min's) and times of days, dates & days of week.

Even those who -don't- get charged a "call tick" for each local call (or even by the minute...) would have the chance to see when the ISP may be hanging up (i.e. before its "maximum connect time"), or otherwise losing contact with the e-smith box, e.g. due to line noise, etc.

I suppose the info is in some log(s) already, but I suppose it's mixed with lot of other (unrelated) lines, et al.

[Michael Maxwell]

If you install the RPM "e-smith-isp-0.1-6.noarch.rpm" which you can get from http://users4.50megs.com/noble/isp.html You can control the modem via the e-smith manager (start, stop, Preset connection times)  :-)Steven Lewis wrote:

> e-smith manager modem control. Connect, disconnect, and
> reconnect.

[Wei]

I wonder if the improvements that this change seem to provide would be wiped after each upgrade of the e-smith box?

As well, I wonder if it will continue to work - if re-installed - after future upgrades?

How does it work, by the way?

[stephen]

Wei wrote:
>
> I wonder if the improvements that this change seem to provide
> would be wiped after each upgrade of the e-smith box?

it depends what e-smith changes
it should keep working after an < upgrade >

 
> How does it work, by the way?

it stops diald being triggered into making calls because of network activity. the button forces the link up or down, with optionally a cron job to do the same at preset times.

stephen