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Old 02-02-2005, 00:02   #1
Electrolyte01
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Automatic restarting routers?

OK I had to post this since I don't get it.

Scenario:
Today my router crashed, for some unknown reason but it's usual they do. I know it crashed because the "ether" light on my cable modem went out, and the fact there is only 1 entry in the routers log, which was today when it got the IP from the DHCP server. If the modem had crashed, and not the router, there would have been 2 entrys in the log, and the ether light would have stayed on, but the D/S and the other 2 to the right would have been out.

The strange thing is, seconds after the ether light went out and I lost my internet connection, the light came back on, and my internet sprung to life.

The only way it could have got the internet back was if it had restarted it's self automatically?

Any other explanations on what it could have been, don't know much about routers at the moment since I havn't had it long
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