Monit and laptops

Hi-

Have loved Monit for many years. This is the first time I’ve considered using it on a laptop so I thought I would write to see if there is anything I should be wary of.

Here’s the situation: I have a laptop that will randomly just start losing 70%+ of packets. If I cycle the interface (ifconfig en0 down then up) it always resets and is fine for another random while. Have been trying to debug this for months, but just decided in the meantime I should find a way to automate this cycle the network in a packet loss situation “fix”.

It seems like Monit would do just fine with a config that said “ping this address and if you have N failures in time T (or cycles), cycle the interface”. My only concern is how it might handle situations when the laptop sleeps or partially sleeps (or wakes up and doesn’t have wifi for a bit). I don’t think I’d want it to be flapping things in those cases. 

Should I worry about this?  Is there perhaps a clever way to say “only go into corrective mode after N number of successful pings have occurred” as a way to make sure it is only taking action when the laptop is actually in use? Any other concerns?

Thanks!

     — dNb