Is it possible for your PC to reboot your router?

[Lex]

Is it possible for a PC to reboot a router automatically?

 

[Xez]

Im sure a script could be written to log into the router excute the command to reboot. Not a clue how it'd be done though sorry

 

[fastwunz]

Xez is that a clio 16v?? i used to have an M-reg - put in a Greet Cottin Air filter and WAHEY!! miss that car.

On topic - im not sure, i dont THINK a pc can do a reset - you need to do a hard reset from the router as far as i know. What sorta router is it?

 

[HomerJ]

Would depend on the router but most of them I would have thought that you cannot

 

[Xez]

Xez is that a clio 16v?? i used to have an M-reg - put in a Greet Cottin Air filter and WAHEY!! miss that car.

It is

To the OP, what/why are you curious to know if a pc cant automatically reboot a router? Im not quite sure what your trying to do. More details would be good.

 

[rick827]

Its just a web server so there's no reason you cant script a login and reboot request. Better however would be opening telnet up and scripting it through that (model dependant)

 

[leezer3]

All it should require is a simple set of telnet commands
This is the telnet scripting tool that I use for simple jobs like this:
http://mike-tech.com/article.php?gif=cisco&article=72

Simple reboot script:

192.168.1.1 23
WAIT "login"
SEND "root\m"
WAIT "password"
SEND "mypassword\m"
WAIT ">"
SEND "reboot\m"
WAIT ">"

Obviously replace the IP, user & password as appropriate- Should be the same as those you use to log into the web UI.

You should then be able to call the script with Windows task scheduler or similar

There are plenty of other ways to do this (All are going to be involving telnet), but this is using a simple ready-made scripting client with nothing complicated.

-Leezer-

 

[Curiosityx]

You can schedule commands within the Cisco IOS using the Kron but as for your average off the shelf devices unfortunately not, unless you put them on a timer switch.