From: Jeff Shultz 

Adam Flinton wrote:

> Mike '/m' wrote:
>> On Wed, 09 Jul 2003 09:05:56 +0100, Adam Flinton
>>  wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Mike '/m' wrote:
>>>
>>>>On Tue, 08 Jul 2003 17:59:56 -0400, Richard B.

>>>>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>On Tue, 08 Jul 2003 17:43:12 -0400, Mike '/m'
 wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>I have no experience wth any of these:
>>>>>
>>>>>Ah-ha! An expert among us. 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>I am actually considering some manner of remote power
switch for my DSL
>>>>modem.  Every once in a while it loses sync, and all traffic is
>>>>blocked. I was pondering having my firewall ping the ISP's
gateway box
>>>>on a
>>>>regular basis.  When the ping fails, I'd power-cycle the DSL modem.
>>>>
>>>
>>>Same here. Though a bios update fixed most of that.
>>
>>
>> A BIOS update for the modem?
>>
> Nah it's a combined DSL modem & hub (inc NAT, port redirection etc) &
> yes a bios update.
>
> Adam

Sure - I've done those.
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Jeff Shultz

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