I am having problems with a DSL modem at a school I help. It locks up periodically and the only way to get it going it to recycle power on it. This is not easy to do from home. Before I take the drastic step of spending the rest of my life trying to communicate with a human at Verizon DSL, I thought I would look for an automated way of performing this. What I am looking for is a power strip which has a LAN port and can be recycled by an action running on a computer on the internal side of the network. I have Linux and Windows systems and am thinking of having a script to monitor access to the external net. If the external network becomes inaccessible, it would send a recycle command to the power device, which could be just a script. Being done automatically rather than interactively, I would prefer to have a method that is not a web interface.
Thanks,
Mike Riley
Thanks,
Mike Riley