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At my office, we have a hardware firewall that keeps needing to be reset. After much beef with the support people, we have just decided to try to get around this problem ourselves. Everytime the firewall kicks off, I have to drive 30 minutes back to work and manually reset the thing (i.e. unplug it and then plug it back in). The reason I have to come in is because we are using OWA and we have to be able to hit or email from home.

Now, we are thinking of ways that we can reset the damn thing from home.
1) My supervisor thinks we need to route it through a computer with a dial-up modem ( basically a DTMF system ) and somehow configure it so we can just reset the hardware firewall with a press of a button over the phone. - So how would I go about setting this up and doing it?

Also is there already a device out there that I can purchase?

 

Most firewalls you can attach a modem to the serial interface, therefore you wouldn't need a pc. I know most PIX firewalls you can. Then you could just dial directly into the firwall, and issue a reset. However, you would need access to the firewall to do this.


Scott
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