Ever since our ISP upgraded our broadband, we've had problems
with the external router needing to be rebooted. Naturally this
happened recently while everyone was on holiday, so I had to
have a holiday without email (a good thing). The only relevance
to Linux is that our external router feeds a Linux server with
UPS.
What appears to happen is that the router (and we've tried
Netgear and Belkin) does not recognise that the connection has
been lost and does not try to reconnect. A ping of an external
address detects the problem. Are there any ADSL routers that
handle this automagically?
I recently came across an external piece of kit that will do
this.
http://www.epowerswitch.com/uk/p-4g_guard.htm
Since it is such a trivial piece of code to produce a periodic
ping to an external source, I wonder why this facility is not
provided by all ADSL routers.
Stephen
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