Twang:

Well, that is what the "Auto-Ping" is all about.

If I don't get a ping from you in the last two minutes, then you get 
power-cycled/rebooted.

There are IoT PICs that are ~$5 that can speak Ethernet and could be 
programmed to reset, or press the power button if 5V was present, and they 
had not heard from the BBB lately.

More appropriate monitoring for a server, than watching some GPIO wiggle.

--- Graham


On Monday, May 16, 2016 at 8:08:01 PM UTC-5, Super Twang wrote:
>
> @Graham
> Wow!  I hadn’t yet thought of Ethernet as a point of failure.  Apart from 
> the (“It doesn’t always soft-reset" issue — see outline I.B.1.b) I’d guess 
> you could solve this with the onboard watchdog timer.  Run some kind of 
> daemon that periodically “Checks for good ethernet” (a bit vague, I know), 
> if found, it tickles the watchdog, if not, it provokes a reboot.  But yes, 
> the problem remains that the reboot doesn’t always complete.
>
> Of course if your ethernet got fried, that’d turn into a reboot cycle 
> without some logic to notify you of the problem, and stop after a number of 
> cycles.
>
>
>
>

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