>> I'm currently jumping through some hoops trying to get my Gentoo >> router and cable modem rebooted since they've stopped functioning and >> I'm away from them. Is there any sort of a slick setup to enable me >> to remotely kill/apply power to a couple of devices like these? I >> can't think of anything. > > You can do this with X-10. I had my Internet connection die while on > holiday a couple of times,with no way to power cycle the modem, so I > plugged in in through an X-10 module and have a cron job that switches it > off and on if several addresses are inaccessible for a while.
Very nice, thanks Neil. And by the way, this is looking like a hardware problem now, not a Gentoo problem. - Grant
