Re: Heartbeat between Router and 3rd party box

At 04:15 AM 8/18/2002 -0700, Voreniza S wrote:
> The intent is to develop software that monitor the general health of the 
> box by receiving/ and or sending  regular keepalives.
have you considering pinging the device? Is there some specific process 
that you want to poll, or just maintain IP connectivity?