Re: [Hampshire] Re:Self-rebooting ADSL routers

Stephen Pelc wrote:
> 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?
...
>
> Stephen

You probably won't find my answer useful but our Cisco 877 routers
reconnect without any problems. I wouldn't consider this for an home
user though since software updates/upgrades are by paid subscription.

Simon