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"back on line" notice
Surfing on a LAN and got disconnected by your server? This program notifies you when you are reconnected. | |
When the internet server on your LAN goes down, a client side program can be ran that pings the internet until you are connected again. Either a dialog box and/or a sound, or even send a page to your pager can be initiated to notify you once the connection is resestablished.
DeepMetrix
http://www.deepmetrix.com/
A number of network tools including IpMonitor. [phoenix, Oct 04 2004]
HostResumedNotifier
http://skinnybrown....hostresumednotifier
This program will notifiy you when connection to a specific host resumes, you could also use this to alert you that your connection is back up. [Skinnybrown, Oct 04 2004]
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As I researched the above solutions I was disappointed to discover this idea is still largely unbaked. The deepmetrix solution is a server side solution and costs $700.0. What I specified is a client-side program for joe consumer that quietly pings the internet until it's up - should be a cakewalk for an experienced network programmer to write and offer for free or nearly free. |
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Also, don't tell just me when the internet is NOT available. I already know that when I fail to access the internet. Besides, the IM based solutions are a pain for those of us who dislike IM and the additional system resources they consume. |
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itd be a pretty simple bash script, calling ping until the host is found. i do it manually myself all the time. |
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Why don't you hire a computer to do it? |
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What's your longest run? 4 hours? |
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Baked. My cable modem has a built in speaker. It has several different sounds. I was actually surprised to find out how high quality the recordings were. It has a certain chiming sound for connecting to the internet, another chiming sound for when it gets a network connection, and a "boing" sound for when it loses an internet connection. |
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Baked. A little Windows program I wrote that pings the server you specify, and whenever its state changes (from down to up or vice versa) it squawks Pingu the penguin at you and notes down the time in a log file. |
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Just run any good anti-hacker firewall product. If you haven't been attacked in over 60 seconds, clearly you are not connected to the Internet.</sarcasm level=partial> |
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