Restarting an Ethernet modem (ADSL) with software

[Alan Cox]

On Mon, 9 Apr 2007 20:53:35 +0100
"Paul Smith" <phhs80 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear All
> 
> Is there some way of restarting an Ethernet modem (ADSL) with
> software, i.e., without switching it off and then on by hardware?

Ask the modem manufacturer.

If you mean "from Linux" then there are a couple of things that may fit
your needs. One is to use X.10 to control the power to the modem and
physically power cycle it using an X.10 controller. The other for some
modems is to find the URL on the web interface and the form values which
the menu options on the configuration interface for restarting the modem
trigger and put that into a script for wget/lynx/etc to use.