From owner-freebsd-current Thu Feb 6 13: 3:40 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E19737B401 for ; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 13:03:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from carver.gumbysoft.com (carver.gumbysoft.com [66.220.23.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABA5F43F3F for ; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 13:03:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gumbysoft.com) Received: by carver.gumbysoft.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 98F7E72E7B; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 13:03:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by carver.gumbysoft.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97C0972E7A; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 13:03:38 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 13:03:38 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White To: Andrew Gordon Cc: Lucky Green , Subject: RE: L440gx+ serial BIOS needs text mode In-Reply-To: <20030204000002.P42367-100000@server.arg.sj.co.uk> Message-ID: <20030206130208.A60537-100000@carver.gumbysoft.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Andrew Gordon wrote: > - On the latest machines featuring 'serial over LAN', you can > persuade the management CPU to subvert the serial port and > pass the data over one of the ethernet ports. This seems to use > a proprietary protocol, but if you have one Windows machine > somewhere with the Intel management software loaded on it, you > can use that to proxy the protocol for any number of managed > machines - ie. telnet to port 623 on the Windows machine, then > connect back to the target machine and get attached to the > serial console (and so get a FreeBSD login, if that's what is > running on COM2). I'd love to get the spec on this -- its a proprietary Intel feature and they won't cough up the spec unless you're a high volume integrator or have money and NDAs. > - Medium-aged machines seem to have all the hardware to subvert the > serial and ethernet ports, but won't do serial redirection apart > from controlling the BIOS. Upgrading the BMC software didn't > help on the machine I had in this category. No big loss for FreeBSD of course :) -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message