From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 1 10:25:27 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA25977 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 1 Oct 1997 10:25:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cplkagan.globaleyes.net ([209.60.64.59]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA25966 for ; Wed, 1 Oct 1997 10:25:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from parrothd.globaleys.net (parrothd [192.0.0.29]) by cplkagan.globaleyes.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA23761; Wed, 1 Oct 1997 08:28:43 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.19971001122134.006df924@midwest.net> X-Sender: parrothd@midwest.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Demo Version 3.0.3 (32) Date: Wed, 01 Oct 1997 12:21:34 -0500 To: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" , The Hermit Hacker From: "Jonathan E. Lyons" Subject: Re: Remotely power cycle a machine...? Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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: > > >On Wed, 1 Oct 1997, The Hermit Hacker wrote: > >> Does anyone know of any way of doing a remote power cycle of a machine? > >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. > >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. > >Supposedly, you can cascade several TeleBoots on a single phone line, but >we haven't done that yet. > > > ..-.. ..-.. Jonathan E. Lyons __ /-___-\ __ __ / \ __ parrothd@midwest.net (__\/___ ___\/__) (__\//-oO--\\/__) 87 VFR700FII | \__|__/ | (/ _---_ \) Southern Illinois University ( ___ ) \/__|__\/ School of Ag. LAN Admin. ( / \ ) | [VFR] | http://cplkagan.globaleyes.net/ \ |.-.| / \ .---.{O) \ || || / \|///|| | '\| |/' |\|\|{_} | | |///|// '_' |///| '---'