[CentOS] Back-up connection
Carl T. Miller
carl at carltm.com
Fri Aug 16 16:44:53 UTC 2013
Timothy Murphy wrote:
> The problem in both places is that the ADSL modem sometimes goes off,
> and the only way to turn it back on seems to be
> to disconnect and re-connect the power supply.
I had a similar problem with a cable modem. My relatively
inexpensive solution was to buy an X-10 Firecracker kit and
build bottlerocket from http://www.linuxha.com/bottlerocket/.
I then set up a cron job to test the Internet connection
every minute and reset the power whenever it failed.
c
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