Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 14:01:58 -0500 (EST) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> To: "Ron G. Minnich" <rminnich@Sarnoff.COM> Cc: Marius Bendiksen <Marius.Bendiksen@scancall.no>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dropping to single user mode on a telnet connection Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02.9810281359130.17054-100000@sasami.jurai.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.981028134526.13985A-100000@terra>
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On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Ron G. Minnich wrote: > On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Matthew N. Dodd wrote: > > Why not just have done with the hackery and use serial consoles hooked to > > terminal servers all living on a private network hooked up to a > > management/monitoring system? > > 1) because its one more link in the chain, and links break > when you get to reasonable numbers >From the standpoing of someone observing the operation of 100s of machines installed world wide I would have to disagree with you. > 2) because serial consoles are going away on the next round of > motherboards Poor design decision? While leaving the telnet/ssh port open on entering single-user might be useful, I argue that a serial console will be less painful in the long run. -- | Matthew N. Dodd | 78 280Z | 75 164E | 84 245DL | FreeBSD/NetBSD/Sprite/VMS | | winter@jurai.net | This Space For Rent | ix86,sparc,m68k,pmax,vax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | Are you k-rad elite enough for my webpage? | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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