Travis Crump writes: > Why don't you just ping the upstream router? Because that will bring the link up if it is down. The goal is to determine the status of the link without changing it. -- John Hasler john@dhh.gt.org Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org