remote reboot for KR1

tkooney · EVDO Newbie Joined: 07 May 2006 Posts: 5

I have a KR1 with a 5740 soon to be replaced with a KPC650. I works as expected, I get a strong EVDO and it stays connected for days. Occasionally it loses the connection and eventually ends up with a red status light. At this point, I can't get it to reconnect without rebooting - either pulling the plug or using the reboot on the web control page. I expect that there will be signal drop outs, so I don't think the lockup is avoidable.

The problem is that the machine that depends on the router (and the router itself) is in a somewhat remote location that is often unoccupied, so I can expect long periods of loss of connectivity if noone is around to do the reboot. The remote computer is running RH WS 9 2.6 kernel. I'd like a telnet type command to reboot when the connection is lost or a method to use the cron to periodically reboot the router.

boerio · EVDO Fledgling Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 22

Have you looked at the KR1's remote management capabilities that are built-in?

tz1 has firmware that allows for telnet. Look around elsewhere on this forum. cron may be more difficult to attain, since it will require the ability to "write" to the cron directory. And on a system that's intended to be read-only, that may prove difficult.

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Michael · Posted: Mon May 08, 2006 3:31 pm Post subject:

If the internet connection is gone, there might not be any way to remotely access your KR1, so you might not be able to do it. Normally, when the KR1 and your EVDO connection is up, you would have thie ability (log in via web interface or used TZ1 modiied firmware to telenet and do the reboot).
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lrosenbeck · EVDO Newbie Joined: 13 Feb 2006 Posts: 8

If you can get firmware loaded on the KR1 that allows telnet, there's no reason you couldn't put together something on a machine connected to a LAN port to check connectivity and if the test fails, login via telnet and reset it (using expect).

Another alternative to that would be to put the KR1 on some sort of manable power supply. APC makes all sorts of power supply units that are managable via telnet. You could test connectivity from your linux box. If that test fails, connect to the managble power supply and power off/power on the outlet the KR1 is connected to.

As a cheaper option to an APC power switch, you could pickup an X10 kit with an appliance module (http://www.x10.com/automation/ck18a_s_ps32.html). There's some linux packages out there that allow you to control X10 outlets via serial. You could put a script together to test connectivity and powercycle the KR1 (connected to the x10 appliance module) in the event of a connectivity failure.

tz1 · Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 3:03 pm Post subject:

With a red light, it will reset after about 15 minutes by itself.

It might be possible to put something together to reset things if/when the remote PPP connection goes down for a shorter time.