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From: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net>
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On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, Doug White wrote:

> On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> This got integrated into IPMI 2.0, and is available on shipping hardware.
> If I can ever locate some of said hardware, I'll try to implement a tool
> to attach to it.  In the interim the vendor usually provides a Windows
> tool.

I have been told there is a tool 'IPMItool' that is most likely
this one: http://ipmitool.sourceforge.net/

It might be a bit linuxoid but I haven't checked the code yet.

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Bjoern A. Zeeb				bzeeb at Zabbadoz dot NeT