On 2010-01-26 at 09:05:27 -0500, David Baron wrote: > Using pptp, I had a cron job to reconnect if > need be which ran periodically. How do I do this with the router short of > manually running netcardconfig? I'm not sure what you're asking, since an Ethernet connection to a router is "permanently on". If you're having trouble with the interface, you can take it down and bring it back up again with something like ifdown eth0 ifup eth0