This recipe explains how to reboot a Draytek Vigor 2600 router from the Unix command line.

Simply run the following command to reboot router 192.168.5.1 whith administrative user USER password PASS:

wget -O - "http://USER:PASS@192.168.5.1/cgi-bin/reboot.cgi?sReboot=Current&submit=++OK++"

You get a message like:

--14:17:50--  http://USER:*password*@192.168.5.1/cgi-bin/reboot.cgi?sReboot=Current&submit=++OK++
           => `-'
Connecting to 192.168.5.1:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: http://192.168.5.1/doc/reboot1.sht [following]
--14:17:51--  http://192.168.5.1/doc/reboot1.sht
           => `-'
Connecting to 192.168.5.1:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 401 Unauthorized
Authorization failed.

and the router reboots immediately.