Hi Bruno, Paul and Allan; Paul said he got an answer from Alan so I hope I am not hi-jacking a thread. On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 15:22 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 20:53:35 +0100, > Paul Smith <phhs80@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Is there some way of restarting an Ethernet modem (ADSL) with > > software, i.e., without switching it off and then on by hardware? > > This is a bit off topic for this forum (unless the modem is running Fedora). > Yea, it is OT, but, boy, would I like to read an answer. I have a cable service provider, rogers.com, that won't talk to you if you have a router or use Linux. It seems I have to fight with them every month about something. I can't change providers -- a long family story I won't bore you with. > It would have been a good idea to have told us what the model and the firmware > of the modem is. Then someone might have been able to give you a definitive > answer. As it is, all we can say is maybe. > My cable modem has to be turned off and restarted every three weeks to a month. If you could tell me how do it with a script, rather than going to the basement; climbing up on the freezer; unplugging and waiting for one minute; then restarting, I would really appreciate it. I'll write the script if someone can point me to the essentials. I have a Motorola Surfboard Cable modem, Model SB5100 (supplied by the cable company). All my computers run through a AOPen SOHO Series 10/100Mbps SOHO Broadband Router and then into the modem and out through the cable system. > I have a couple of adsl modems I am not using right now. One I can telnet > into, but I don't specifically remember being able to reboot it from > the command line. The other one has a web interface, and I think changing > certain settings will force a reboot. If the problem you are trying to fix > is that the modem is hung, you might not be able to issues the commands > (if any) to get it to reboot. > -- Regards Bill
