SNMP reset / reboot

psyclops wrote:

Yes...If it's hung you can't reboot it. But what he means to do, like most of us have to do with these Netgear WiFi AP devices, is to setup a script to preemptively reboot the device before it locks up. I reboot my wg102 devices every Tuesday evening at 11pm. Before I started doing that, they would lock up about every other Wed (the busy day in the office). It was worse before the version 8 firmware, but it's still a consistent problem. I would love to see this fixed in a new firmware.

If it is that reproducible, it suggests that there may be a problem that causes it to lock up, have you ever tried to pin point it?

I've seen routers that literally run out of resources and appear - see below - to lockup when there are too many connections - as in torrents - or when a spam mailing virus gets loose on the network.

The reason I said appear to lockup, is that some routers and access points can only be managed through a web interface, I've had Cisco product that appears to be locked solid, no routing, no web interface, but still accessible through telnet or the console port, thus allowing me to actually determine why it had apparently locked up. At one installation, I went so far as to leave a console cable connected and hyperterminal running so that I could capture all of the console messages.

Ever wondered why every other Wednesday and not every Wednesday?