Date: Wed, 07 Jan 1998 17:33:09 -0800 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: " or ur Ivarsson" <totii@est.is> Cc: Dave Smith <dpsmith@xoom.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Remote power cycle Message-ID: <199801080133.RAA18561@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 07 Jan 1998 14:51:11 GMT." <34B3965F.3B7592E2@est.is>
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>David Greenman wrote: > >> It was quite easy for me to do, but the level of difficulty will depend >> on your ability to use a soldering iron and knowledge of electronics. What >> I did was reconfigure the hook relay so that the switch simply shorts the >> tip/ring wires rather than connect them to the isolation transformer. It > >Small advice on modems to use! > >Many of the newer modems do have 'solid state' switching and the tend to >not work! Find modem with large relay on and you should just short the >transformer at the line side. Hmmm...if these modems use a "solid state relay", then it should work. In any case, I used a cheap 14.4K internal modem (I don't recall the maker) that had a normal miniature relay. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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