Having the Synology DiskStation hooked up to the UPS I have avoided any sudden problems when Eskom decides to load-shed again. Over the last few days I did notice (especially since now my iBurst modem and WLAN-access point is on 24x7) that leaving the iBurst modem on for too long seems to deteriorate throughput.
Neither the iBurst modem nor the Belkin access-point have remote management functions, and so I devised the following script to give my router the boot (resulting in the modem being disconnected and reconnected after the rooter boots).
How does it work: I wrote a small script which logs onto the routers management interface and then issues a restart command. This can be easily achieved with the post-method in wget. The script itself runs periodically on the NAS via a cronjob.
This mechanism will work for any router which has a browser-interface via HTTP. I created the script below after HTTP-sniffing the post-requests:
Code:
| #!/bin/ash |
| DT=`date +%b\ %d\ %T` |
| echo $DT ROUTER: Restarting router >>/var/log/crond.log |
| wget http://172.16.0.1/setup.cgi --post-data="pws=&itsbutton1=Submit&todo=login&this_file=login.html&next_file=ut_reset.html&language=en&message=&passwd=[BASE64-encoded-string]" |
| wget http://172.16.0.1/setup.cgi --post-data="reboot=Restart Router&todo=reboot&this_file=ut_reset.html&next_file=reset_ok.html&message=" |
| echo $DT ROUTER: Restarted >>/var/log/crond.log |
In the above I use wget to submit the post request and have sniffed the http-login and reset request via HTTP Scoop - a sweet little HTTP protocol sniffer for Mac OSX.
Now you just need to automate this on your NAS via a cronjob:
MuffinStation> cat /etc/crontab
Code:
| #minute hour mday month wday who command |
| 0 2 1/5 * ? root sh /volume1/webapps/restartrouter.sh |
The above will restart the router at 2am every five days starting with the 1st of the month (which is great, as by the first my cap is normally gone - smile).
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