On Thu, 8 Dec 2005, steve szmidt wrote:
> On Thursday 08 December 2005 06:18, Ken Elliott wrote:
> >
> > It has gone down a couple of times, but not more than a day. I'd say (from
> > memory) we've had 3 or 4 outages in the last year.5 (1.5Y). If you need
> > better than that, I'd consider getting both DSL and cable.
>
> Thats what I did for my office. I made cable the primary (as the troughput is
> much higher), I had a script on the firewall that sensed if it went down and
> rerouted traffic to the DSL. Then once cable was restored, it switched back.
>
> You can get fancy and add the play command to have your firewall announce such
> changes verbally.
The control freak in me got tired of being in the dark and compiled festival
and wrote a script called "say", so I could do something like "say Cable is
down, switching to DSL.". Looks like I could call "say" from other machines
on the LAN, too:
tcp 0 0 *:1314 *:* LISTEN 476/festival
(Don't bother trying it from outside; my LAN is NATted.)
Hey, what happens if they _both_ go down? Primary is DSL (regardless of its
status) until cable comes back up? Or has DSL ever gone down?
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