[CentOS] OT: Linksys router misbehaviour

[Fred Smith]

On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 03:50:50PM +0200, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> I'm running a Linksys WRT54GL router from my CentOS-7 home server.
> Every now and then (maybe once every 2 days) the router's WiFi cuts out,
> and I've found no way to solve this except to disconnect the power
> from the router, wait 10 seconds and then re-connect.
> This always works.
> The router is running under dd-wrt.
> 
> My question is - which makes it a tiny bit CentOS-related -
> does anyone with such a router know of a way
> to wake the router up in such a case through the computer?
> 
> I wouldn't have dared to ask this question here or anywhere
> until recently, as I assumed my ancient Linksys routers were obsolete.
> But I've been reading posts recently saying that
> there hasn't really been a Linux router to replace the WRT54GL,
> and in particular Linksys's recent 11n replacement
> is not as good as the old model in many ways.
> 
> Anyway, if anyone has an answer to my query I should be very grateful.

You may be able to browse to the router's web page and find a clicable
thingy there somewhere that does a reboot. I used to run that exact
combination, but no longer have one around to look at, so I don't 
recall any details.

or if you can run a cron job on it, you may be able to reboot that way.

Also note another poster suggested another way to do it via cron.

Fred

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