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I lose my connection to my isp every 5 minutes orso.
So pingning every X minutes mybe helps.

tiao

Hi Razoon,

Quote:> I lose my connection to my isp every 5 minutes orso.
> So pingning every X minutes mybe helps.

You may want to create a cron job which looks something like this:

*/10 * * * * /bin/ping www.abc.com > /dev/null 2>&1
*/10 * * * * /bin/ping www.cnn.com > /dev/null 2>&1
*/10 * * * * /bin/ping www.redhat.com > /dev/null 2>&1

See ya

Dean Thompson

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You may also find you need to use something other then ping, the ISP might look
for it.....might try wget on the same site in cron as well....but make sure you
use the right options or it might try to dl the entire internet :P

Dean Thompson schrieb:

Quote:> Hi Razoon,

> > I lose my connection to my isp every 5 minutes orso.
> > So pingning every X minutes mybe helps.

> You may want to create a cron job which looks something like this:

> */10 * * * * /bin/ping www.abc.com > /dev/null 2>&1
> */10 * * * * /bin/ping www.cnn.com > /dev/null 2>&1
> */10 * * * * /bin/ping www.redhat.com > /dev/null 2>&1

Yould use ping -c 5 ... to limit the number of pings. Otherwise ping will run
forever and cron will generate one ping on top of the others each 10 minutes...

You could also use ping -i 600. This issue on ping each 600 seconds

regards E.R. Sexauer

It is better to use fping, it can ping multiple hosts in a concurrent way and
it's output is better suited for analysing.

Gruss
Bernd