restarting Motorola SB6121 cable modem through a script

[kw123]

for those who would like to restart their cable modem remotely:
the following command will reboot your cable modem. the address 192.168.100.1 is hardwired into the modem it does not change

in a terminal:

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curl http://192.168.100.1/reset.htm?&reset_modem=Restart%20Cable%20Modem

in applescript:

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do shell script "curl http://192.168.100.1/reset.htm?&reset_modem=Restart%20Cable%20Modem"

in PY:

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subprocess.Popen( "curl http://192.168.100.1/reset.htm?reset_modem=Restart%20Cable%20Modem",shell=True,stdout=subprocess.PIPE,stderr=subprocess.PIPE).communicate()

just use your browser to get to the status page at 192.168.100.1
It shows signal levels, log files and also the reset button that is triggered by above commands.

Karl