[plug] ADSL failover

[Simon.Scott at flexiplan.com]

Hi all

A friend of mine is setting up a linux box to act as a gateway for a small
network. He plans on getting ADSL, as well as a dialup account (due to ADSL's
problematic nature).

Has anyone written/heard of a script which will automatically dial in after ADSL
fails (plus a few retries)?

If not, can anyone think of the best way of acheiving this? It would be nice to
go the other way too, where the script would start a cron job to test ADSL
connectivity (maybe via pppoe switches to see if the access concentrator is
visible) every now and then and if ADSL comes up, drop dial up.

As an aside, if I had a dialup account and ADSL up at the same time, what would
the routing issues be? (ie which would take preference?)

Thanks


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