From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 2 11:42:08 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33EFA16A4CF for ; Fri, 2 Apr 2004 11:42:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp2.linkline.com (smtp2.linkline.com [64.30.215.131]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CA1343D3F for ; Fri, 2 Apr 2004 11:42:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sclements@linkline.com) Received: from samclementsde (host-66-59-225-129.lcinet.net [66.59.225.129]) by smtp2.linkline.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E27F215B; Fri, 2 Apr 2004 11:42:05 -0800 (PST) From: "Samuel Clements" To: "'Marc G. Fournier'" , Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 11:42:07 -0800 Organization: linkLINE Communications, Inc. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.5510 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 In-Reply-To: <20040402135458.D91030@ganymede.hub.org> Thread-Index: AcQY6G/GV7m43yXFRKS450Hfq1uRjgAAZVkA Message-Id: <20040402194205.E27F215B@smtp2.linkline.com> Subject: RE: Rackmountable "serial console" ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: sclements@linkline.com List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2004 19:42:08 -0000 Or you can invest in a server board that does serial over lan. This combined with BIOS re-direction to the serial port can give you a solution where you telnet into a proxy that connects to the SOL interface and you get BIOS (yes you can even go into it to change boot devices, etc) as well as watch the boot messages that are re-directed to the serial port. This ends up being an OS Independent solution so no matter what OS your running; you have a telnetable way to look at the serial port. -Sam -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Marc G. Fournier Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 9:56 AM To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Rackmountable "serial console" ... vs the KVM over Ethernet ... what is available out there? I know I lose the ability to 'watch the boot' vefore the OS cuts in, so BIOS stuff would still require hands on, but any recommendations on one that works well with FreeBSD, especially as far as being able to get into the debugger and whatnot? ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 _______________________________________________ freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hardware-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"