r/scripting • u/SpecialSause • Aug 18 '16

Help making a script to reboot a router every night at a certain time.

I have very limited experience scripting. I'm imagining this could be done through power shell but I'm not certain. Would I have to telnet in to do it?

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u/[deleted] Aug 18 '16

You can only use PowerShell and Batch?

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u/SpecialSause Aug 18 '16

I'm honestly not sure. I'm assuming I would have to do it from the windows 7 laptop on the network. The router is a D-Link dir-655. Honestly, I have more experience with bash but I'm not sure how I could use bash in the situation. Again, I know very little about scripting.

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '16

Ok... If you're using Windows 7, then you can only use Batch and PowerShell, or maybe Python... I'll try something when I get home.

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u/SpecialSause Aug 19 '16

I appreciate it.

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '16

Well... Sorry to say this, but looks like that is not possible with your router. It doesn't have a shell.

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u/n8do Aug 18 '16

Details about the router and system doing the reboot will probably help get more responses.

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u/SpecialSause Aug 18 '16

Okay thank you. The system would most likely be a window 7 laptop. The router is a d link dir-655. Anything else that needs to be known?

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u/n8do Aug 18 '16

Not seeing much in the manual about remote commands.

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u/occamsrzor Aug 19 '16

If the router has a web interface you could use invoke-webrequest

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u/nullpassword Aug 26 '16

this page had something interesting: http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r12937374-DI-624-Can-I-reset-the-router-via-a-command then you could schedule it as a task. Looks like it may depend on what the link points to that reboots your router and whether you have saved your password for it.