[oclug] Rogers Keep-alive Script

[Dan Cardamore]

/bin/ping -i 10 router > /dev/null &
I chuck that in my /etc/rc.local, or /etc/rc.d/rc.local file.

You could probably make that 10 seconds more like 5 mins, I just can't
be bothered to do it on my machine.

Dan

On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 03:24:11PM -0500, Brian Barber wrote:
> My apologies; I forgot to write it down when the discussion was on.
> 
> What are all you Rogers @home users using to keep your connections alive?  I 
> just put in a Linux firewall/router/DHCP server in for a client and they 
> don't have any connectivity until an hour after they get in (i.e., no 
> apparent connection despite their best attempts and then it magically comes 
> alive).
> 
> I think it was an hourly cron job that went something like "ping -c ...".  
> If that's the case, could you include the syntax?
> 
> Thanks,
> BB
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