On Mon, 21 Oct 1996, Michael Dillon wrote:
On Mon, 21 Oct 1996, Alexis Rosen wrote:
In lieu of a real remote console like the one I described in a recent message, Thor and I cooked up the notion of a user-mode demon that tickles a watchdog timer every few seconds. (This is better than putting it in the kernel or init, for a whole lot of reasons.) This will at least deal with the need to reset a box when it dies. But I don't know where to get ISA cards that are just watchdog timers (many CPU cards do come with timers built in).
Check out http://www.etinc.com You'll find watchdog timers and other goodies that come in handy building routers or even racks of WWW servers (Ethernet bandwidth limiter).
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