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orschiro

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Registered: 2009-06-04

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[netcfg] automatic reconnect

Hello guys,

is there a way to let netcfg automatically reconnect to a specific profile after the signal level had dropped under a user-defined limit?

In short; netcfg should execute the following two commands, when the signal rate is very low:

netcfg down profile
netcfg profile

Thank you for your answers. .)

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ngoonee

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Re: [netcfg] automatic reconnect

You'd probably have to write a simple script to do that, a busy-wait sort of thing (sleep 10 seconds, check, sleep another 10 seconds).

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Moo-Crumpus

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Re: [netcfg] automatic reconnect

networkmanager does reconnections if the connection is lost, netcfg not. I doubt I would engage in writing a script in somewhat another tool does out of the box.

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Moo-Crumpus

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Re: [netcfg] automatic reconnect

You could add a cronjob for something like (IP-Adress could be a switch or gateway in your homenetwork, or some url outside - ping www.google.com, f.e.)
but you would have to add netcfg -r PROFILENAME to /etc/sudoers.

#!/bin/bash
if ping -c 1 -w 1 -q 192.168.254.255 &>/dev/null; then
    echo ""&>/dev/null
else
    sudo /usr/bin/netcfg -r PROFILENAME 
 fi

Sorry for not having a better idea.

Last edited by Moo-Crumpus (2010-03-11 16:53:19)

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