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Asked: 2018-08-22 23:40:13 +0800 CST

Connect and reconnect LTE modem via systemd

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I use an USB LTE modem for connecting my Ubuntu 18.04 server to LTE metwork. The modem is 12d1:1506 Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. Modem/Networkcard. I wrote a systemd script which starts the connection at boot:

[Unit]
Description=Swan LTE connection
Requires=network-online.target
After=network-online.target

[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=/root/swan_connect.sh

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

swan_connect.sh contains:

#!/bin/bash

/bin/echo -e "AT^NDISDUP=1,1,\"internet2\"\r" > /dev/ttyUSB0
/bin/sleep 2
/usr/sbin/netplan apply

It works fine but the problem is LTE connection is dropped every 48 hours (or in case of outage) and I need to re-connect and get new IP. I do it currently by a crontab script each minute - if I can't ping an IP, then it will reconnect by these commands:

/usr/sbin/netplan apply
/bin/echo -e "AT^NDISDUP=1,0,\"internet2\"\r" > /dev/ttyUSB0
/bin/sleep 2
/bin/echo -e "AT^NDISDUP=1,1,\"internet2\"\r" > /dev/ttyUSB0
/bin/sleep 2
/usr/sbin/netplan apply

Again - it works fine but I was just thinking whether there would not be a systemd version of this re/connecting. Is it possible to make a systemd script in a way systemd would re-connect the LTE connection if dropped?

networking usb-modem systemd

1 Answers

  1. systemd offers a number of different ways to activate services, including path-based activation to start a service if a file state changes.

    There is no built-in facility to react to the network connection being down.

    systemd does include systemd timers as a replacement for Cron, but the end result would the same design: Perform a check on an interval.

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