Re: Hardware Watchdogs / Alternatives

[Alan Mead]

At 09:32 AM 7/14/00 , you wrote:

>Looks good, I have used similar for monitoring remote, network connected
>systems but, and I quote;
>
>"The first thing you'll need is two computers.  You need not have identical
>hardware in both machines (or amount of memory, etc.), but if you did, it
>would make your life that much easier when a component fails."

Well, I agree with your points but not your conclusion... I would advocate 
buying old stripped 486 (or even 386) computers and running a 
floppy-disk-Linux like LRP with heartbeat as a simpler, more flexible, and 
probably cheaper (albeit bulkier) solution.

http://www.linuxrouter.org

-Alan


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