On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:09:10AM -0000, Andrew Oakley wrote: > The last bit is probably the bit that I'm having the most trouble with. > Once the 3G is up, it is entirely possible that I could ping my ADSL > ISP's gateway from the 3G connection. So simply getting a reply from the > ping test is no guarantee that ADSL is back online. Maybe some kind of > traceroute test? Or force a ping over a particular ETH, how?
man ping says that you can tell ping which interface to send on with -I and then the address or interface name. Robert ________________________________________________________________________ Robert McWilliam r...@allmail.net www.ormiret.com History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it - Sir Winston Churchill -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/