I have an old problem which has followed across multiple editions of Raspberry Pi OS and (I think) on several types of hardware: at the extreme range of wi-fi, the network occasionally goes out until reboot/power cycling. This happens consistently when there is too much traffic in too short a time, like from apt-get upgrade.
Is there something built-in which I can use to 1) automatically detect the network being down, and 2) do a hard restart of the networking hardware?
If not, I can just make a shell script to reboot after a number of consecutive failed pings within a set interval of time. But I would hope that there is some kind of watchdog available.
At the moment this applies to Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm) on a Raspberry Pi 3A+
PS. Right now, I must also have APT throttled, among other things, to reduce how often that happens:
Is there something built-in which I can use to 1) automatically detect the network being down, and 2) do a hard restart of the networking hardware?
If not, I can just make a shell script to reboot after a number of consecutive failed pings within a set interval of time. But I would hope that there is some kind of watchdog available.
At the moment this applies to Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm) on a Raspberry Pi 3A+
PS. Right now, I must also have APT throttled, among other things, to reduce how often that happens:
Code:
$ cat /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/75lowerspeed Acquire{ Queue-mode "access"; http { Dl-Limit "25"; }; https { Dl-Limit "25"; };};Statistics: Posted by tpyo kingg — Sun Aug 03, 2025 12:48 pm