remote power control
Tony Nelson
tonynelson at georgeanelson.com
Tue Jul 18 21:51:15 UTC 2006
At 2:56 AM +0930 7/19/06, Tim wrote:
>On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 17:43 +0200, thierry itty wrote:
>> Sometimes the internet connection is lost and there no way to get it
>> back but to reset the modem (even rebooting the server doesn't make it,
>> it's really a modem frozen problem)
>> Instead of paying somebody to drive there and pull the AC plug from the
>> socket then push it in again, I decided to find some Remote Power
>> Control device which could allow the server to do that by itself when it
>> decides the modem is frozen.
>
>Have you considered replacing the modem, first?
Though that is a possibility, it can also happen that the ATM Virtual
Circuit is lost, even though the DSL connection is fine. Power-cycling the
DSL modem will also restore the VC. There may be a way to do this through
commands to the modem, say telling it to disconnect and reconnect, but I
don't know.
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