Stalled Camera Servers

[videofilm]

Hello,
I am involved in creating wildlife webcams at our site www.newyorkwild.org.
This is a natural history site devoted to views of nature unobtainable by direct observation. Our webcams let us view nature without disturbing the subject of our observations.
I am having some network issues with some of my camera servers connected to networks at the visitor centers where we start our feeds. The MPEG4 camera servers are connected to existing networks at the visitor centers using a linksys router. Most of the time this works fine, but occasionally the feed just stops cold for unknown reasons. It can be solved usually by resetting the camera server and/or the router. I currently have put the units on power timers to automatically reset the router and camera server overnight, but this means I am stalled for an entive day if it goes down. Sometimes I cannot call the folks at the distant office or visitor center to manually reset the device.
Any network experts out there know what causes this??
Thanks.
Videofilm

[sicarie]

Have you looked into the logs on the box to see what is happening, ie if there is a shutdown, or a failure of some sort? Usually if you can narrow it down to a message or two you don't understand, you can either post them on a helpful forum (hint ;), or google the message with "linksys restart" appended either at the beginning or end...

[videofilm]

Have you looked into the logs on the box to see what is happening, ie if there is a shutdown, or a failure of some sort? Usually if you can narrow it down to a message or two you don't understand, you can either post them on a helpful forum (hint ;), or google the message with "linksys restart" appended either at the beginning or end...

Great suggestion Sicarie.
There is a logfile on my Videotek camera servers. I was more concerned about getting them back online by having someone reboot them (thus losing the logfile) than finding out what was happening. I will now have a look at the logfile first!
Thanks

[sicarie]

Great suggestion Sicarie.
There is a logfile on my Videotek camera servers. I was more concerned about getting them back online by having someone reboot them (thus losing the logfile) than finding out what was happening. I will now have a look at the logfile first!
Thanks

Good luck and feel free to post again, I'd be pretty interested to see what the error is or what you find.

I was just thinking that if you could find out what was making them restart, you might not even need to have someone reboot them...