How can I do a ping every 30 seconds? 1

[bobleonard]

I have a VPN which is just 'losing' its connecting after
and hour or so of inactivity.

A continuous ping seems to keep it up.

I would like to ping every 30 second to see if that will
keep the VPN connected.

If someone can give me an idea how to do this, it
would be very appriecates.

Thanks in advance.
BobLenard

 

[burtsbees]

What kind of VPN? Are keepalives set?

Burt

 

[bobleonard]

Hi,

The VPN is formed by two netgear fvs-318's.

I don't have anything in the configuration that suggests
a setting for keyalives.

I wish I did... hence a way (script?) to use ping to accomplish this task???

As I wonder (as I write this) if I could use the scheduler to schedule ping and put output in a folder and then
delete it on boot???


Boblenard

 

[lhuegele]

Are you talking about a remote user VPN tunnel or a site-to-site VPN tunnel?

 

[bobleonard]

The VPN is site to site

 

[comtechau]

Command Line method = ping 127.0.0.1 -l 1 -t
Sends a ping to 127.0.0.1, (-l 1) bytes = 1, (-t)continually till stopped.

http://commtechau.bravehost.com

 

[bobleonard]

Thanks but contiuous ping is not what I wanted.

I was hoping to ping every 30 seconds, just to keep traffic down. Hence, some kind of script that had a pause or wait.

Boblenard

 

[burtsbees]

http://forums.cacti.net/about8497.html

Burt

 

[comtechau]

Keeping traffic down is why I specified the switch -L 1.

Either method should be insignificant in comparison to traffic on the link. (being ~90kB /24hrs)

http://commtechau.bravehost.com