rebooting ADSL modem

[Zbigniew Koziol]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:

>>Actually, it is possible to connect to my model by using console and eg 
>>minicom. Once connected, one needs to enter command "restart" to reboot 
>>the modem.
>>
>>I strongly suspect that that could be automated, but no wise idea comes 
>>to my mind how that could be done. Idea ideas?
> 
> 
> chat or expect talking to the serial port with a script.  chat is
> especially good at it.

Peter P. suggested expect as well.

Thanks to both. It works for me with expect (nice to have a glimpse to 
expect). Though this is a bit ugly way. Now I learned also that it 
should be possible to do this by using perl. I leave that as a next 
subject of my homework.

zb.

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