ovax3 / sfr-wifi-connect

Keep your SFR WiFi session alive.

SFR WiFi Connect

sfr-wifi-connect will check regularly if your SFR WiFi session is still up and reopen it automatically if required.

Default check period is 15 seconds.

Install

$ sudo make install

See the Makefile for more options.

Usage

$ sfr-wifi-connect [e-mail] 123abc456
$ sfr-wifi-connect [e-mail] 123abc456 30s

Netcfg profile example

CONNECTION='wireless'
DESCRIPTION='SFR WiFi'
INTERFACE='wlan0'
SECURITY='none'
ESSID='SFR WiFi Public'
IP='dhcp'
POST_UP='sfr-wifi-connect SFR_EMAIL_HERE SFR_PASSWORD_HERE > /var/log/sfr-wifi-connect.log &'
POST_DOWN='killall -q sfr-wifi-connect || echo "sfr-wifi-connect process not found"'

Put this netcfg profile in your /etc/rc.d/network directory and netcfg will automatically start sfr-wifi-connect when connected to a SFR WiFi endpoint and kill it when disconnected. Logs are put in the /var/log/sfr-wifi-connect.log file.