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From: "Steve Simon" <steve@quintile.net>
Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 19:43:48 +0100
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Subject: [9fans] auto reconnect for cpu servers
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Is there a technique or program that can be used on a diskless
cpu server to make it auto-reconnect when the file server reboots?

I remember reading about the Challange file servers at the labs,
in which (I believe) the cyclone driver would write reboot to
/dev/reboot if the connection dropped.

Is there somthing similar I could do elegantly with a tcp/ip
connection? I could just do a readdir(2) of / every 10 secs and
reboot if that fails but I assume somthing already exists.

-Steve