From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Apr 17 18:19:49 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA22064 for isp-outgoing; Thu, 17 Apr 1997 18:19:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from horst.bfd.com (horst.bfd.com [204.160.242.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA22056 for ; Thu, 17 Apr 1997 18:19:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harlie.bfd.com (bastion.bfd.com [204.160.242.14]) by horst.bfd.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA19197; Thu, 17 Apr 1997 18:19:41 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 18:19:40 -0700 (PDT) From: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org, "David K. Phinney" Subject: Re: tele-boot device In-Reply-To: <199704180104.SAA04006@lithium.dowco.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 17 Apr 1997, David K. Phinney wrote: > Hi, I saw your posting in freebsd-isp and was wondering where I may be > able to get one of these 'tele-boot' devices? > > Thanks for any possible help, Since there has been a couple of people asking, here's the info and a better explanation. USA Communications Corp 493-9 Johnson Ave. Bohemia, New York 11716 (516) 244-6851 The model 450 is what I discuss here. Sorry I don't have a price, I think it was in the $300 range, but I could be way off either way. It's a box that looks like those under-the-monitor power control consoles with 5 outlets on the rear, and 6 switches (one for each outlet, and one master), but it has a pair of phone jacks in the back. A phone line goes into one of them, and the other can go to a phone or whatever, though I don't know if the whatever can take calls (I think so, but we use dedicated phone lines to avoid busies). You can then use any phone to call into the box, give a 4 digit security code, then the 5th digit tells the console which of the 5 outlets to power cycle (power stays off for about 15 seconds).