Forcing connection reset on Edge

[Thieron]

Hello,

I have the following problem: An Edge is establishing a VPN to our network to provide the users behind it with access to our servers. Our ISP resets the DSL-Connection after 24 hours of beeing online. This can sometimes happen during the day. Every time it happens the VPN-Connection is of course lost.

I would like to find a way to force the Edge to reset its connection during the night so I can make sure the 24 hours deadline is not reached during working hours.

Does anyone have an idea how to do this?

Thanks a lot, greetings from Germany and of course Merry Christmas ;).

[chillyjim]

The only thing I can think of is build a script to ssh into the edge box and issue a reboot command.

You might also be able to issue a DHCP renew and have the same effect.

[SnAp227]

You might be able to send an SNMP request that would do it, however I'm not particularly sure since I've never tried this.

Either the ssh script or a macro that would open a web browser every night and go to the restart option.