timed automatic router reboot

[charles2859]

Hi,

Is there a way or script that allow router automatically reboot after a fixed period of time or at a certain hour of the day?
The reason is some of the ports forwarded to my Asterisk box stops (or not going there) after router has been up for a while. I am sure there is a reason behind but a quick 1-minute power cycle cures it every time.

 

[WillUK2010]

could you maybe put something in crontab?

 

[bigcid10]

I know that my old belkin N900 had that feature
used to have it set to powercycle every 3:00 am

 

[RMerlin]

Simplest way is using the "cru" command. Create a services-start script (see the README for details) with something like this:

#/bin/sh
cru a 1 "0 3 * * * reboot"

This should reboot the router every night at 3am.

You can also create a crontab if you are familiar with them, just make sure to have a user script to recreate it after rebooting.

 

[thiggins]

Low tech solution: Plug the router power supply into a lamp timer.

 

[JPElectron]

webrelay can do a reboot when it detects something isn't pingable any more: http://www.controlbyweb.com/webrelay/ maybe that helps you?

 

[CaptainSTX]

Dd-wrt

If your router is flashed with DD-WRT you can set up a regularly scheduled reboot.

Never used this feature so I don't know how well it works.

 

[charles2859]

That's quite a lot of basic to advanced suggestions. Webrelay is quite interesting.
Based on the order of $$$, I am going to start with script. One question though, the name for the start up script shall be
1) services-start
or
2) service-start

Thank you again for all the suggestions.

 

[RMerlin]

It's services-start. The actual list can be found in README-merlin.txt.