Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 22, 2016, at 2:05 PM, Sonic <[email protected]> wrote: > > Have a client whose Internet connection is less then reliable. It's > cable service and the cable company always claims there is nothing > wrong on their end. Of course the service is intermittent and by the > time the onsite clerk calls the ISP it's usually back up and always by > the time they get someone sent out. > > The problem is ongoing - it was a problem before I took over the > account, and is still a problem even though the previous firewall has > been replaced with a shiny OpenBSD box and the previous rented cable > modem has also been replaced with a shiny new Arris model (separated > by a few months). > > I discovered that when the problem occurs I (of course) cannot connect > to the firewall remotely, nor can I ping it. However I can ping the > gateway node. Which to me says the problem is between the ISP gateway > node and the cable modem. Two cable modems with the same issue lead me > to discount them as the problem, and two firewalls with the same > problem are a bit far fetched as well. Plus the OpenBSD firewall logs > no errors, either in dmesg or any other log file. > > I would like to be able to provide a way to document the outage no > matter when it occurs both via some job running on the firewall and a > job running remotely - to be positive that when the Internet cannot be > seen from the firewall the problem is at the suspected gateway node > and that at the same time the remote job can verify that the gateway > node can be seen but the firewall cannot, creating logs in both > systems only during the outage times. All of this possibly under the > mistaken idea that I can actually get WOW to repair their service. > > Would like some suggestions on ways to about this. > > Thanks, > > Chris >
Ifstated(8) may be useful. Not really it's purpose, but you can set it up to ping each box and the outside world. I think it will log it's ping status. Not sure how the config would look, but I think it's worth a look.
