Re: [FWP] Perl Fixes My Network (Cable Modem) [OT]

[Adam Sampson <azz@gnu.org>]

On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 01:40:03AM -0700, Dave W. Smith wrote:
> At 00:13 9/15/00 -0700, Jeremy D. Zawodny wrote:
> >The only solution is to turn the cable modem off and back on.
> >Then I had an idea. Why don't I just plug the cable modem into an X10
> >appliance module. Then I can reboot it whenever I want. Great. So I
> >did.
> 
> That is slap-myself-for-not-thinking-of-it-first brilliant.

When I last had a poke around inside the rack where my previous workplace's
Internet connection hardware was, I was suprised to find a mains timer lying
on top of the Cisco router. (For those of you who haven't seen a mains
timer, it's a device with a mains plug on one side, a mains socket on the
other and a mechanical clock in the middle, with switches around the
circumference which apply or remove power to the socket depend on the time)

Apparently, they were having trouble with the router crashing periodically;
the timer was installed to power-cycle it around midnight.

-- 

Adam "Would have worked for time-limited Internet access too" Sampson
azz@gnu.org

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