Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 10:03:09 -0400 From: "Antoine Beaupre (LMC)" <Antoine.Beaupre@ericsson.ca> To: Pete French <pfrench@firstcallgroup.co.uk> Cc: sumirati@yahoo.de, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Remote monitoring of the state of a kernel... Message-ID: <3B60231D.2060009@lmc.ericsson.se> References: <E15PldG-0004Nb-00@mailhost.firstcallgroup.co.uk>
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Sorry to jump in, but it seems to me that you wouldn't *want* an ether-based solution since that would give anyone that has access to the wire a nice debugger to the kernel, which is basically complete control over the machine. The proper qay to do this is to use a console server. Either an old 486 running *only* ssh or a proprietary console server, either one running a serial wire to one of their ports to your server. I don't see another solution. If there's a crash, anyways, don't count on the tcp/ip stack too much. ;) A. Pete French wrote: >>http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/x4259.html >> >>Here it is described now. You will need two computers connected via serial >>link. > > Hmm, I found that bit, but I am sure this wasnt what I saw before. That > system is not ging to work for me because the two machines are separated > by about 30 miles (though I guess I could beg space on some of the mux's > possibly and route a serial line that way). I was sure there was an > ether based solution somewhere ? > > Thanks for the pointer though - Imay end up having to try and use that > if all else fails. > > -pcf. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > -- Antoine Beaupré Jambala TCM team Ericsson Canada inc. mailto:antoine.beaupre@ericsson.ca To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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