Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 12:59:33 +0300 From: Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> To: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: FreeBSD current mailing list <current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ethercons updated for -CURRENT Message-ID: <20040710095935.8E5D843D48@mx1.FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: Message from "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <200407101849.31882.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 16:40, Danny Braniss wrote: > > The upshot off all this is, if the SOL works, then we can kiss KVM away, > > and as Robert said, just power and ethernet and you are set. > > You could probably use fwcons (I've only used it a little to test) but I think > once it's enabled the target doesn't have to be cooperative for it to work > (although then you need to run firewire to your boxes as well as ethernet) > serial/firewire are ok for one computer, but when you have several, then this does not scale (imaging a cabinet with 30 1U boxes :-). appart from that, ethernet (once you overcome some basic security issues) is great to get the console. dannyhelp
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