Router problems and Scripting

[aerospacemango]

Does anyone have a script for rebooting a router?

My problem is that our router keeps dropping out, and it'll do it at the most inopportune moments! What I'm looking for is a way to schedule a script to ping an outside site or two, every few hours, and if they can't be reached, to reboot the router.

However, my knowledge of scripting doesn't extend that far, so I was wondering if anyone has something similar that I could adapt, or point me in the direction of something useful.

Many thanks!

Mango

[januttall]

best bet is to get a new router.

[SYNACK]

What kind of config interfaces does it have, telnet, ssh, http?

[SYNACK]

Telnet Bat file - MSFN Forum
VBS for telnet

Set cloner = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
cloner.run"cmd"
WScript.Sleep 500

cloner.SendKeys"telnet 0.0.0.0"
cloner.SendKeys("{Enter}")
WScript.Sleep 500

cloner.SendKeys"username here"
cloner.SendKeys("{Enter}")
WScript.Sleep 500

cloner.SendKeys"password here"
cloner.SendKeys("{Enter}")
WScript.Sleep 500

cloner.SendKeys"exit"
cloner.SendKeys("{Enter}")
WScript.Sleep 300

cloner.SendKeys"exit"
cloner.SendKeys("{Enter}")

[aerospacemango]

What kind of config interfaces does it have, telnet, ssh, http?

It's a DrayTek Vigor2800 with telnet and http.

I've managed to find a script for re-booting > Draytek Vigor 2800 reboot script « Duncan Smart's Weblog

But don't know how to implement that into a script to test ping a couple of sites, before forcing a reboot of the router, if there's no response.

[SYNACK]

VBScript - ping computer before vbscript execution
http://customerfx.com/pages/crmdevel...-vbscript.aspx

Its in vbs but its quite simmilar.