Auto re-start after loss of internet connection

Gmart

Would someone be kind enough to provide me a detailed explanation/steps as how I can have my pfsense box restart after the internet connection drops? If a time interval is need then let’s say restart after 5 minutes of no internet connection. -Thank you very much in advance.

johnpoz

That is not a very good idea.. So your isp has an outage of say couple of hours in the middle of the night and your router reboots itself every 5 minutes?

Gmart

Long outages are rare. Connection drops usually only last a few minutes.

Grimson

And why would you need to reboot pfSense after a connection drop? pfSense usually handles these very well.

johnpoz

Exactly... Have never in history of using pfsense had to reboot it to regain access after an outage.. Going back 10 some years of using pfsense.

Gmart

From ONLY 9 years ago... but this solution doesn’t seem to work.

Could someone please help?

https://forum.netgate.com/topic/16217/howto-ping-hosts-and-reset-reboot-on-failure