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Re: Monitoring/Power Cycling PC's with HomeVision



Graham Kiff wrote:

> Guys
>
> I would like to monitor PC's status using something like PING, however
> if the PC hangs and no ping response is received I want to use
> HomeVision to send the appropriate X10 commands to cycle the power to
> the PC.
> Has anyone implemented such a scenario, if so how have they done it.


I'm not sure ping is the right thing to use. It's possible for a PC to
hang but still respond to pings (IIRC they're handled quite low down in
the OSI stack model). Could be wrong. It's been rather more years than I
care to remember since I went to that particular Networks lecture...

Jim



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