[5540] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: More hardware design (was Re: GigaRouter)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Dillon)
Mon Oct 21 18:46:02 1996
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 10:15:06 -0700 (PDT)
From: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199610211226.IAA15124@panix.com>
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
