[WBEL-users] ADSL Monitoring Program?

[Cristian D. GAL]

> I'm having such problems with my providor [i.e. the connection suddenly
> dying, sometimes in the middle of something!] that I'm now looking for
> a program/script that can run in the background monitoring the
> connection and emailing me if/when it goes down so that I can then
> record the time of the outage, and then perhaps getting some recompense
> from my providor. But, I don't know what to google for or the name of
> any program. Can anyone help/advise please?

I don't know if you if you'll find exactly what you want but you could 
write one that sounds like this:

[ $(ping -s0 -c 3 -w 5 $(/sbin/ip route|grep default|cut -f3 -d' ')| \
grep '100% loss'|wc -l) -ge 1 ] && mail me@domain.com -s $(date)

and if you're looking for linux apps don;t search google, go to a good 
source like: freshmeat.net or sf.net

Cris

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