On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 10:05:47PM +0700, Angus D Madden wrote: > On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 09:21:47AM -0500, T.Phan wrote: > > Is there a way to soft reset the cable modem and the NIC on > > a Debian/Linux box? > > > > The AT&T Cable Modem some time loses connection, sometime it > > resets itself. Afterward, the Debian box will no longer be > > able to establish the connection until the debian box and > > the cable modem are shutdown and reboot. > > > > Any suggestion on how to avoid the shutdown/reboot ? Thank > > in advance! > > have you tried: > > /etc/init.d/networking restart > > that should reconfigure the network interfaces. if that doesn't work, > the cable modem may have picked up new routes and i'm not sure how to > clear those. i'm sure it's possible though.
Hi, how do you configure it? Can you telnet it? If you can, try to restart the modem by a telnet connection. I can do it on my ADSL modem, but I never used a cable modem. HTH, Rafael Sasaki
