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Date:      Thu, 01 Feb 1996 11:21:04 -0800
From:      Curt Mayer <curt@emergent.com>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Watchdog timers
Message-ID:  <199602011921.LAA23294@bluewhale.emergent.com>

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hey, guys. here's a solution that smells much more like unix.
have a daemon running on each node that is prone to hangup.
this process wakes up every once in a while and does a system checkup.
(stats things, pings places, looks at kernel statistics). when it see
that things are ok, it sends a datagram to a particular machine, 

this node, the monitor, has a table in memory of all recent datagrams
from each node. when a node hasn't been heard from for a while, it
tells a BSR x10 controller to cycle power on the hung node. DUH.

our ISP, tlg.net used to do routing and slip with sx-16's running NOS.
whenever a hang happened, tlg used to do a power cycle with X10's.

	curt



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