From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 9 11:10:09 2004 Return-Path: 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 BF54F16A4CE; Fri, 9 Jul 2004 11:10:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: from transport.cksoft.de (transport.cksoft.de [62.111.66.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D0D943D39; Fri, 9 Jul 2004 11:10:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net) Received: from transport.cksoft.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by transport.cksoft.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 819381FF931; Fri, 9 Jul 2004 13:10:08 +0200 (CEST) Received: by transport.cksoft.de (Postfix, from userid 66) id A94791FF91D; Fri, 9 Jul 2004 13:10:06 +0200 (CEST) Received: by mail.int.zabbadoz.net (Postfix, from userid 1060) id E5344154DA; Fri, 9 Jul 2004 11:09:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.int.zabbadoz.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA3B315329; Fri, 9 Jul 2004 11:09:15 +0000 (UTC) Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 11:09:15 +0000 (UTC) From: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" X-X-Sender: bz@e0-0.zab2.int.zabbadoz.net To: Robert Watson In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS cksoft-s20020300-20031204bz on transport.cksoft.de cc: FreeBSD current mailing list Subject: Re: ethercons updated for -CURRENT X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 11:10:09 -0000 On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, Robert Watson wrote: > In October of last year, I posted an ethernet console implementation for > FreeBSD 5.x. I've recently updated that implementation to work with .. > http://www.watson.org/~robert/freebsd/ethercons/ > > Specifically, the most recent drop is named: > > 20040709-rwatson_ethercons.tgz ... > The details remain pretty much the same as before: it's a link layer > protocol that grabs the same unofficial protocol number as the Linux > ethernet console code. for the archives: a paper about the linux COE (console over ethernet) can be found here: http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/tech/freenix03/kistler.html > I currently have no explicit plans to commit this to the FreeBSD source > tree, due to reservations about grabbing a non-official protocol number, > lack of a useful standard for ethernet console, etc. I'm looking at using from what I had been told: Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF, http://www.dmtf.org/) is working on a standard called "Remote Management Control Protocol" (RMCP). One part of this work is SOL (Serial over LAN) which is based upon RFC2217. Perhaps this will be the way to go in the future. I am sorry I cannot provide any more information about this but perhaps the pointer will help someone. -- Greetings Bjoern A. Zeeb bzeeb at Zabbadoz dot NeT