[Sussex] Openworld goes pingless ....

[John Crowhurst]

> Last week was a bad week for my DSL connection.  It went slow, it went
> completely .... then ping stopped working.
>
> Why is this important?  Well, because of the previous unreliability of
> BT  Openworld I'd written a script for my (Linux) server that uses ping
> to see  that the Internet is reachable and, if it isn't, cycles the
> power supply to  the ADSL router - which often restores service.

Welcome to BT OpenWoe.

I have found a piece of C code that may help, by performing a TCP ping
instead of IMCP, you can simply ping their web servers into oblivion!

http://www.csce.uark.edu/~aapon/courses/concurrent/examples/tcp-ping.c

Or UDP ping:

http://www.ranum.com/pubs/fwperf/udp-ping.c

--
John