"Monitoring" in order not to call it "Watchdog" because FreeBSD uses the latter terminology for the completely opposite behaviour, namely shutting down a NIC without activity. I would like to have the network connection resurrected (e.g. by calling /etc/rc.d/netif restart ifX) instead of giving a dying connection the final fatal blow. Here ifX would be replaced with the actual device identifier of the respective NIC.
I don't want to reinvent the wheel, therefore my question: Does something like this already exist in the ports or even in the base system?
I don't want to reinvent the wheel, therefore my question: Does something like this already exist in the ports or even in the base system?