On Feb 8, 2004, at 12:53 PM, Rob Kelley wrote:
> I've been thinking lately to cycle the power on my machines while I'm
> away (My Linksys often locks up, making the whole network inaccessible

If you're willing to get a phone line involved, how about leaving a PC
behind the router with a modem accepting dial-in calls?  You could then
get a shell (unix/linux) or VNC/PCanywhere/RD into your PC.  It's pretty
easy to interface the parallel port of the PC you're dialing into to a
relay, which could be hooked up to momentarily interrupt your router's
power supply upon your command.  See:  http://www.lvr.com/parport.htm and
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Bill_Bowden/page6.htm

Jeff
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