From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 17 05:51:43 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CB2416A41F for ; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 05:51:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from maxsec@gmail.com) Received: from qproxy.gmail.com (qproxy.gmail.com [72.14.204.200]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C6AC43D46 for ; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 05:51:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from maxsec@gmail.com) Received: by qproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id q12so732323qbq for ; Sun, 16 Oct 2005 22:51:42 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=LR9KxcYHYdOGPhL37oCAYKWkRekZLY6SW/t2Zm0d/gtMBBglifXI+pP1PprnuMKn5EZxFnwQlq4tBFTeaBeoM3jRwlby5bdxDeZewHFRGDnh4ckb1CveJmTtONyAHLzJXs/q/M8k+ckIxnEu/Ky8geVbTV+te1avjmXtansdIDg= Received: by 10.65.206.20 with SMTP id i20mr1685565qbq; Sun, 16 Oct 2005 22:51:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.64.209.20 with HTTP; Sun, 16 Oct 2005 22:51:41 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <72cf361e0510162251p7500503flf70d0019e2cd7ad6@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 06:51:41 +0100 From: Martin Hepworth To: Grant Peel In-Reply-To: <007e01c5d243$77839100$6501a8c0@GRANT> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <007e01c5d243$77839100$6501a8c0@GRANT> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Remote Console X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 05:51:43 -0000 If you've got money then Cyclades or Perle console servers are the way to go... --- Martin On 10/16/05, Grant Peel wrote: > > Hi all, > > I have asked this question before, so if it looks familiar ... > > I am hoping all the reading I have done over the past few weeks makes thi= s > instance of the qeustion clearer. > > Background: > > 1 Dell 24 Port Switch, WAN connection to my ISP. > 5 Dell Serers, each with 2 NICs. > 1 NIC on each connected to SWITCH - VLAN 1 -WAN (Many different IP's). > 1 NIC on each connected to SWITH - VLAN 2 -LAN (192.168.0/24) > > Each Server has 2 Serial ports, unused. > Each Server has 2 USB ports, unused. > > All servers running FreebSD > 2 Running 4.10 > 1 Running 5.2.1 > 1 Running 5.4 > 1 Running 4.4 (Slave3 Nameserver only). > > I am ~ 120 miles from the server cage these are located in. So traveling > to > there is a real pain. > > I have been reading everything I can find on consoles, ttys, blackboxes, > Lantronix serial cables etc, etc ,etc ,etc ... > > What I am looking to do, is to connect all the servers to a device, or, > daisychain them together so that even if I reboot a broken machine, I can > still get to a "boot ?" prompt, not to mention single user mode and norma= l > ssh shell prompt. (of course I already have the latter through IP when th= e > machine boots correctly. > > So my question is, can a machine be made to still be remotely accessable > (any method), when file systems are not mounted, or, kernel not loaded? I= f > so, using what setup? > > -Grant > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >