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). Michael Dillon - ISP & Internet Consulting Memra Software Inc. - Fax: +1-604-546-3049 http://www.memra.com - E-mail: michael@memra.com