Topic: Auto Dialup if DSL fails

[Tim Lucas]

Is it possible to setup our e-smith server here at work to dialup to our provider if the PPPoE connection dies?

I'm guessing a perl script or something similar that runs on cron every 2 mins checks the PPPoE connection, and dialups up if PPPoE is down.
Also check if it is currently dialed up and PPPoE is OK then drop the dialup connection.
I'm sure someone's probably made a *nix prog to do something similar.

Can anyone please help? We need some sort of backup connection, and if it's not possible then i guess we'll have to buy a new router with auto-dialup on the hardware.

- Tim Lucas
(t.lucas-at-iristours.com.au)

[Kelvin]

This has come up before.

Search the forums (all dates) for stayalive.

Kelvin

[Klaus Eckert]

my server is a SME 5.6.
and my DSL is disconnected at least once a day.
but i do not notice that it is disconnected.

first i had a cron-job that did a ping to my ISP every 5 minutes.
one day i read that the PPoE recognises the disconnect and reconnects itself.
so i killed the ping-job and it works further on.

[Tim Lucas]

Thanks Kevin,

I forgot to select all dates *smacks forehead*.

Tim (t.lucas_@t_iristours.com.au)