If you run a cron job to reset the modems every 5 mins... your NVRAM will
be dead in 35 days.
On Tue, 8 Oct 1996, Network Operations Center wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Oct 1996, Robin Dua wrote:
>
> > We are using USR Sportsters at one location and Motorola Online Surfers
> > at another; we find that the sportsters tend to drop connection quite
> > frequently and that the motorolas often do not reset after a call ... thus
> > creating ring thrus on occasion.
> >
> My sportsters are the ones giving me the ring thru. I just grabbed
> someones script to reset idle modems, hacked it up to suit my needs and
> run it from a cron job every 5 minutes. (yes I know it will blow my NVRAM
> eventually...). All my init strings are in the PM so every reset
> re-writes the config. However, my init string in the pm is set up to
> initialize, write to nvram, go off hook, go on hook, soft reset(atz), and
> sync speed (at). in that order. Although unorthodox it solved my problem.
> note, I also reset modems stuck in initialize because my init string
> sometimes picks up when someone is calling in and hangs. So I end up
> running it twice back to back on each portmaster.
>
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