Hello All , On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, Joel Jaeggli wrote:
On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 09:07:31AM -0500, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: ...snip... Is there an effective alternative? All the intel "servers" these days seem to have one of those handy-dandy (note: sarcasm) ethernet ports variously called "integrated lights-out (ILO)" or "lights-out management (LOM)", etc. I am dismayed that intel-based server vendors haven't noticed the decades-old trend of having serial ports for emergency/remote access. serial ports work fine for pc consoles in general, once your bootloader takes over you can display pretty much everything over there... some vendors provide options to map the bios display on the serial ports (supermicro) it's doesn't work for the bioses of some raid controllers however, a pc-weasel will handle that condition fine,and the pc-weasel can also do a hardware re-set of the whole machine to restart a hung box... They don't work so well if you only have one pci slot which you need for a raid controller or if as I found out recently someone reconfigures the terminal server and inadvertantly locks you out when you need it most. Tyan (& another I can't remember now) have console forwarding to
On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, Kelly Setzer wrote: the com1 port . This MB is available in PenguinComputing's 1u & 2u systems . They run *BSD just fine as well . Hth , JimL
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