[Gllug] ADSL Woes

Tue May 20 15:13:10 UTC 2003

On Tue 20 May, Alain Williams wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have an ADSL line, connecting via a USB alcatel modem (the blue manta-ray ones).
> I spend a lot of time away, and ssh back into my box.
> 
> Sometimes the line dies, fault in the BT network/ISP problem/...
> Once the fault has cleared, it is easy to restart by unplugging (USB) the modem for
> a few seconds and reloading the ppp, etc, s/ware.
> 
> The trouble with that is that I need to be there to unplug & plug it back in. I have
> not been able to reload from the command line -- and so write a adsl-watcher script.
> 
> 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 an ethernet ADSL which I understand has an Alcatel chipset, and I
have not needed to do anything to it since it was installed in September
2002. I may be able to get a supply of cheap ADSL ethernet modems, but would
want to test some samples first.

-- 
Chris Bell


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