DEVICES AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATIC RESET OF MONITORED NETWORK NETWORK EQUIPMENT

摘要

An embodiment of the invention is a client on a local area network that periodically and automatically evaluates its physical connectivity with the local area network, exercises local-network services such as DHCP, and verifies Internet connectivity and function by pinging one or more numerically specified IP addresses and by pinging one or more IP addresses specified by an FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain Name) known to the assigned DNS servers. Should physical connectivity, network services, numeric-ping or FQDN-ping tests indicate a fault, this embodiment of the invention will briefly interrupt power to or otherwise force-reset attached network elements identified by such tests as faulty, thereby restoring normal network functionality, and may also reset itself