Date: Wed, 01 Oct 1997 12:21:34 -0500 From: "Jonathan E. Lyons" <parrothd@midwest.net> To: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" <ejs@bfd.com>, The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Remotely power cycle a machine...? Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19971001122134.006df924@midwest.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.971001084859.14209A-100000@harlie.bfd.com> References: <Pine.NEB.3.96.971001005242.220A-100000@thelab.hub.org>
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Gezzz, It sounds like everyone has found these things....Maybe we should've
checked out Radio shack.. :)...
At 08:56 AM 10/1/97 -0700, Eric J. Schwertfeger wrote:
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>On Wed, 1 Oct 1997, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
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>> Does anyone know of any way of doing a remote power cycle of a machine?
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>Can't find our manuals, so I don't have the manufacturer or contact info,
>but we've got several boxes called TeleBoot 450's, which control up to 5
>devices each. The manufacturer does make a smaller device as well.
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>Basically, you hook up the teleboot to a phone line, and plug the
>device(s) into the teleboot. You then call the line, enter a 4 digit
>security code, and a single digit of which device to power cycle. The
>Teleboot then turns of that socket for aproximately 10 seconds.
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>Supposedly, you can cascade several TeleBoots on a single phone line, but
>we haven't done that yet.
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