So I need a damon, too? I thought it's a kernel only thing because there is 
extra hardware for this task.
dmesg gives me:
sc520_wdt: WDT driver for SC520 initialised. timeout=30 sec (nowayout=0)

On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:29:40 -0500
"Michael Proto" <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Thorsten Mühlfelder <[email protected]>wrote:
> 
> > Hi
> > As far as I know the net4501 watchdog should reboot the machine when the
> > kernel hangs. How can I test this with Linux?
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> I can't speak for the linux version as I run FreeBSD on my ALIX and Net4501
> boards, but I can kill -9 my watchdogd process and the box will reboot
> within about 15 seconds. I suspect a similar test could be performed under
> Linux.
> 
> 
> -Proto
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