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 # check_and_reboot
 
-An automated monitoring and system recovery tool written in Julia that checks network connectivity and website availability, with automatic reboot capabilities when failures are detected.
+An automated network card recovery tool written in Julia that monitors network connectivity and triggers system reboot to recover from network card hang/stuck conditions.
 
 ## Overview
 
-This project consists of two monitoring scripts:
+This project consists of two monitoring scripts that detect network failures and automatically reboot the system to recover the network card:
 
-- **[`check_router_reboot.jl`](check_router_reboot.jl)** - Monitors router connectivity via ICMP ping
-- **[`check_yiem_website_reboot.jl`](check_yiem_website_reboot.jl)** - Monitors website availability via HTTP requests
+- **[`check_router_reboot.jl`](check_router_reboot.jl)** - Monitors router connectivity via ICMP ping to detect when the network stack becomes unresponsive
+- **[`check_yiem_website_reboot.jl`](check_yiem_website_reboot.jl)** - Monitors website availability via HTTP requests as an additional network health indicator
 
-Both scripts run continuously in the background, performing periodic health checks and automatically rebooting the system if consecutive failures exceed a configured threshold.
+Both scripts run continuously in the background, performing periodic health checks and automatically rebooting the system if consecutive failures exceed a configured threshold. The reboot serves to reset the network card and restore network connectivity.
 
 ## Features