Certain days and times I've been noticing while podracer was running it couldn't get out to the internet since the ethernet connection was down and I didn't take the ethernet connection down or turn off the modem or disconnect anything. A workaround for this I'm now using is a modified crontab file podracer entry. It just adds a pon dsl-provider && before the podracer command. I get email letting me know it actually works too by means of the pon output response, I have the mailto variable set for that purpose.
