[Gllug] ADSL Woes

[Alistair Mann]

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Thus spaketh Matthew King on Tuesday 20 May 2003 4:05 pm:
> > I am running a recent 2.4 kernel with the open source Benoit (?)
> > driver, but would be happy to change if needed.
> >
> > Has anyone got any perls of wisdome for me ?
>
> I have a similar situation - The gateway at work has one of these UFOs and
> I'm not always there to repair it.
>
> I've told the muppets there to just reset the box to solve all the
> problems, but I need to make one of these scripts too for obvious reasons.
>
> I owuld probably periodically ping my ppp peer and if that goes dead
> reload. In fact it'd probably be better to ping some remote hosts like
> google.co.uk and debian.org. 

I have the same occasional problem as OP, but I have something to add to this 
bit from Matthew.

I can't imagine any reason to ping any equipment other than the ppp peer as, 
by definition, if the problem exists on the other side of that peer, then 
there is nothing that reloading, resetting or any other action on the 
localhost can do that would make a difference. Even if there was, equipement 
beyond the peer are more and more likely to fail the ping test as distance 
increases, and are also subject to the vagaries of increasing numbers of 
admins: for instance, a number of sites filter out ICMP.

I would ask other posters though: why does an adsl router make a difference? 
Does it have some sort of circuitry for detecting and handling line's that  
need restarting?

Cheers,
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Alistair
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