I'm looking for a freeware/shareware program (or something built into Windows XP?) that tracks the history of a DSL connection for many hours. I'm trying to track intermittent outages without having to be at the computer when they happen.
The history log should show the exact times when the modem was disconnected and how long it took to re-sync with the central office. I've found seveal apps that don't quite do what I'm after. They just stop or crash when the connection is lost. Thanks for any info.
One of my favorite system network monitering tools is called Servers Alive (aka "salive"). For what you want to do, it's free. For people with real networks, it's cheap.
Run it on your PC and tell it to monitor the first IP number upstream from your DSL router. You could also monitor your ISPs DNS servers.
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Windows Tracrt command will tell you what the IP numbers are for the boxes that connect you to your ISP.
Well, I checked again and it's where I thought it was:
http://10.0.0.1/cgi-bin/webcm?getpage=../html/syslog.html [My router's address is set to 10.0.0.1, which is different from the default which I think it's 192.168.something, so change it to match yours]
The text file with the logfile is at
/var/log/messages
The first few lines of mine after a cold boot look like this:
0:00:00 Elapsed Time syslogd started: BusyBox v0.61.pre 0:00:18 Elapsed Time klogd: DSL in Sync 0:00:25 Elapsed Time pppd[226]: Plugin pppoa loaded. 0:00:25 Elapsed Time pppd[226]: PPPoA Plugin Initialized 0:00:25 Elapsed Time pppd[226]: Plugin pppoa called. 0:00:25 Elapsed Time pppd[226]: PPPoATM setdevname_pppoatm - SUCCESS 0:00:25 Elapsed Time pppd[226]: PPPoATM setdevname_pppoatm - SUCCESS 0:00:25 Elapsed Time pppd[226]: Options file - /etc/ppp/options.0.32. 0:00:25 Elapsed Time pppd[226]: pppd 2.4.1 started by admin, uid 0 0:00:25 Elapsed Time pppd[226]: setting line discipline hook 0:00:25 Elapsed Time pppd[226]: connect_pppoatm_ses...Enter 0:00:25 Elapsed Time pppd[226]: connect_pppoatm_ses: socket created fd
- 0xd. 0:00:25 Elapsed Time pppd[226]: connect_pppoatm_ses: setsockopt called. 0:00:26 Elapsed Time pppd[226]: connect_pppoatm_ses: connect successful. 0:00:26 Elapsed Time pppd[226]: Calling line discipline hook 0:00:26 Elapsed Time pppd[226]: Setting pppoatm line discipline. 0:00:26 Elapsed Time pppd[226]: vc encaps. 0:00:26 Elapsed Time pppd[226]: Using interface ppp0 0:00:26 Elapsed Time pppd[226]: Connect: ppp0 -> 0:00:26 Elapsed Time logic: Enter act_fun_netmeeting of do_priv Act_function/nm_state=0 0:00:26 Elapsed Time logic: Enter act_fun_netmeeting of do_priv
Yes, but all the other messages are in there too. Right now, the end of mine has:
2:39:27 Elapsed Time klogd: DSL out of sync
2:39:27 Elapsed Time klogd: DSL in Sync
2:39:44 Elapsed Time syslog: DNS request timeout, server: 216.250.190.144.
2:39:54 Elapsed Time klogd: DSL out of sync
2:39:54 Elapsed Time klogd: DSL in Sync
2:40:00 Elapsed Time -- MARK --
2:40:04 Elapsed Time syslog: DNS request timeout, server: 216.250.190.144.
2:40:24 Elapsed Time syslog: DNS request timeout, server: 216.250.190.144.
2:40:44 Elapsed Time syslog: DNS request timeout, server: 216.250.190.144.
2:40:55 Elapsed Time klogd: DSL out of sync
2:40:55 Elapsed Time klogd: DSL in Sync
Hmm.... Never saw the "DSL out of sync" before...
Try /usr/www/html/syslog.html
Or, just enter the URL into your Web browser
http://10.0.0.1/cgi-bin/webcm?getpage=../html/syslog.html changing 10.0.0.1 to the IP address of your router
"Bert Hyman" wrote in message news:Xns9829C28585FDEVeebleFetzer@216.250.184.7...
I'll bet it was just a re-sync operation due to line fluctuatiuons.
The link doesn't work for me (yes, I changed the IP to my own). But that is becuase I have no syslog.html. Perhaps that is becuase I have my modem configured as basically a pass-through (DHCP off, static public IP assinged) to my own internal firewall/router.
Below is my listing of the /usr/www/html directory...
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