hi,
i have just upgraded from white russian to kamikaze.
so far the openwrt runs fine.

my dsl-provider does disconnect my line every 24 hours.
i want to have the reconnect controlled my "me" on a fixed time.

on whrite russian i have the following cron-job:

0 6 * * * /sbin/ifdown wan && /sbin/ifup wan

on kamikaze this dont works.
also "ifdown wan && sleep 10 && ifup wan" dont works.
manually "ifdown wan" and then "ifup wan" works!

So - can anyone give me an hint?

regards
Thorsten

...doesn't work ;-)

Did you try the "persist" option? It necessary for pptp to reconnect, I don't know if it works with pppoe.
http://ppp.samba.org/ppp/pppd.html

As stated in wiki http://wiki.openwrt.org/HowtoEnableCron … amikaze%29  it should work ... maybe you should try to confirm that task is realy executed ?  f.e. with something like

0 6 * * * echo test >> /tmp/crontask.tmp && /sbin/ifdown wan && /sbin/ifup wan

if file /tmp/crontask.tmp  will be created, than cron execute task correctly otherwise look why it is not ...

Hi
the problem ist that

/sbin/ifdown wan && /sbin/ifup wan

dont works for me (also from command line)

But it works when i type this commands line per line

/sbin/ifdown wan
/sbin/ifup wan

dont know why "&&" dont works as expected.

regards
thorsten

wiki mentioned earlier describe exactly your case ... command used there is

ifdown wan && sleep 2 && ifup wan

i see only one distinct: removed /sbin

... have no other idea ...

(Last edited by e226329 on 9 Jan 2008, 12:55)

Hi
i found the problem!

# echo 1 && echo 2 && echo 3
1
2
3

but

# echo 1 && ifdown wan && echo 2
1

also

# echo 1 && rmmod rp-pppoe.so && echo 2
1

Looks like a bug in Kamikaze! The commands "ifwan down" and "rmmod rp-pppoe.so" breaks the command execution after "&&".
My work-around is two cron jobs: "ifwan down" and one minute later "ifup wan".

regards
thorsten