[Tutor] Monitoring an Internet connection in Python

[Terry Carroll]

On Thu, 14 Oct 2004, Thomas Clive Richards wrote:

> Most external DSL routers make sue of SNMP - if you know what you're looking 
> for, it's trivial to write a python script that polls the router every 10 
> minutes or so.

I don't think my router (an SMC Barricade, SMC7004ABR) supports SNMP, but
that's an interesting idea.  Plus it might be a little bit fun to learn
SNMP.