zyxel

Shell Script to schedule a restart for your zyxel router?

Follow these steps:

• 1. Create an executable file containing this one-line command
  
(sleep 8; echo mypassword; sleep 8; echo "sys reboot"; sleep 3; echo "exit") | telnet router_ip

• 2. get your fiel scritp executable
  
chmod 777 /home/augusto/scripts/reset_my_router.sh

• 3. Set your crontab as per your schedule needs:
  
augusto@george:~$ crontab -e

  paste this command
  
0,10,20,30,40,50 * * * * /home/augusto/scripts/reset_my_router.sh

  in the example above, we will have the reset_my_router.sh script called every 10 minutes
• 4. Wait and see