From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 25 07:52:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA09613 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 07:52:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from tbird.cc.bellcore.com (tbird.cc.bellcore.com [128.96.96.114]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id HAA09592 for ; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 07:52:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from khansen@njcc.com) Received: from monolith.bellcore.com by tbird.cc.bellcore.com with SMTP id AA12143 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for ); Wed, 25 Feb 1998 10:56:50 -0500 Received: from kenh-1 (khansen.cc.bellcore.com) by monolith.bellcore.com (4.1/SMI-4.0) id AA01100; Wed, 25 Feb 98 10:51:31 EST Message-Id: <34F43E86.4770@njcc.com> Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 10:53:42 -0500 From: Ken Hansen Reply-To: khansen@njcc.com Organization: Dis X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (WinNT; U) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: "Ron G. Minnich" Cc: hackers Subject: Re: A web-based FreeBSD configuration tool. References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ron G. Minnich wrote: > > On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, Adam Turoff wrote: > > Ken Hansen writes: > > > Is it REALLY that hard to come up with a keyboard & monitor? > > For a regular box, no. For a toaster, possibly. > > we have a 128-node cluster here at sarnoff. no keyboards, no monitors, no > display cards. Needless to say, keyboard-less admin protocols look like a > good idea from here :-) Granted, ther are special applications, but for a stand-alone, set & forget machine, I don't think my previous statement is TOO far off the mark ("Is it REALLY that hard...") - but I suspect that a 128-node cluster is (for now) a rare configuration... BTW, are you at the Sarnoff center in Princeton, NJ? What are you doing with 128-nodes? Just curious... > "toaster". Now that's a good model. > > ron Ken khansen@njcc.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message