[Wolves] eth keep alive

[Lee Jordan]

Interesting thoughts, I thought a ping would be a quick hack.
could I ping to the broadcast address of the LAN? ie ping -b 192.168.0.255? 
is that safe?

I'll try the lease and a cron first obviously, although I suspect that my 
network isn't quite right as I get proxy issues .... I'm thinking maybe the 
500MB disk is causing issues with lack of space.

Cheers guys.

Lee Jordan
Web Apps Developer
http://www.leejordan.org.uk


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>From: Ron Wellsted <ron at wellsted.org.uk>
>Reply-To: ron at wellsted.org.uk,Wolverhampton Linux User Group 
><wolves at mailman.lug.org.uk>
>To: Wolverhampton Linux User Group <wolves at mailman.lug.org.uk>
>Subject: Re: [Wolves] eth keep alive
>Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 17:03:22 +0100
>
>On Tuesday 14 October 2003 4:25 pm, Aquarius wrote:
> > Ron Wellsted spoo'd forth:
> > > Or use the line:
> > > "* * * * * /bin/ping -c 1 serveronlan 2>&1 >/dev/null"
> > > in root's crontab.  This will ping once every minute.
> >
> > Why not ping -i 60 serveronlan?
> >
> > Aq.
>
>'cos cron will start doing it automagically (in the background) whenever 
>the
>system is started and it will not put anthing on the screen.  Of course if
>you want screen output...
>
>Another way would be to shorten the DHCP lease time to say 600 seconds, 
>this
>would (should) trigger a renewal ever 5 mins.
>
>However, looking at Lee's original post makes me think there is another
>problem, as this is not normal.  If the interface is going away on a Linux
>box and a windows box, this suggests a problem in a common area such as 
>hub,
>cable to smoothie or green NIC in smoothie (unless both NICs are failing in 
>a
>similar way)
>
>--
>Ron Wellsted
>http://www.wellsted.org.uk
>ron at wellsted.org.uk
>N 52.567623, W 2.137621
>
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