Keep Alive
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What sort of activity is needed? If a ping is good enough, then a simple shell script should do it. Here's one I've used to test for problems. Adjust to taste.
#! /bin/sh
while [ 1 ]
do
ping <device address> -c 1 || date >> ~/log;sleep 50
doneYou probably don't need the logging part, so it can be omitted.
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@jknott Thank you for the suggestion. How do you run a shell script from the pfsense GUI?
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You don't. You run it from the command prompt, though you may be able to have it start automatically on boot up.
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@jknott Thanks! I see now there is a Shellcmd Configuration package that can be installed and used to run it. Will see how it goes.
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That may do it. Also, that script is set for 50 seconds per cycle. You can adjust that as needed.
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@jknott Well the command works but it didn't keep the device connected. Not sure what other commands I can use since pinging it every minute didn't work.
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Do you know what's required to keep is alive? If all else fails, you can use my script to test for failure and send a wake on LAN frame.
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@jknott No its a timeclock and the company provides no instruction. Already contact them and they know its an issue that they have not corrected...... https://www.icontime.com. I added your ping script through the GUI shell package. Not sure how to send wake on LAN frame.
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@biggreydog alright I added the cron package and added a WOL command every hour on the hour.. not let's see this thing work now!
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You could probably just run fetch against it to establish a connection periodically. Assuming it has an http interface.
You might find WoL does nothing. Until it's actually gone off at least.
Steve
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There's no point in running WoL until it fails to respond to my script.
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@stephenw10 It has an http interface. I'm not familiar with fetch. What command would I use?
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Just pull a page from it, so maybe:
fetch http://<timeclock_IP>/index.html > /dev/nullSteve
