From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 6 21:09:25 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 667E816A402 for ; Tue, 6 Mar 2007 21:09:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jfvogel@gmail.com) Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com (wr-out-0506.google.com [64.233.184.232]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D93F13C46B for ; Tue, 6 Mar 2007 21:09:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jfvogel@gmail.com) Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id 71so2711431wri for ; Tue, 06 Mar 2007 13:09:14 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=eGWSuiK9/6AWtTyQCrmlprBqXKU8l1b5BYVO7vMQUxWt8Jm2ptBxnjFAzxllvOfodB3UD+IA69ssu53zj+fWXG0Lz87AmqnrtaXVB5BfIjpEyS2op6UnaIcEH7ll9bY0viDzKxCZw3yfZAT+Fzb3pzYjXa9NTFM6m3uvTZzEHRE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=n9EfVfg/FWEtBnCzt8trlfw9tVWypq7mVGtQCXnHDaHnr22ptZpG81cMcBFCqYVHD/zLRAHwLmhQCfaZ4i33Yz6e2Y7wU6Lm6TOHraOQjK/ugtFGdH2fmylPhWgJeLC1EfBJUdiIoH6+qNe43BJw3vkOWX/6yT3J1khh7mkprfI= Received: by 10.114.81.1 with SMTP id e1mr1875256wab.1173215354227; Tue, 06 Mar 2007 13:09:14 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.114.103.15 with HTTP; Tue, 6 Mar 2007 13:09:14 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <2a41acea0703061309p4b7fbacfwbcbf703486a7155a@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 13:09:14 -0800 From: "Jack Vogel" To: "Vivek Khera" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20070227205351.GA72597@ravenloft.kiev.ua> <20070305132350.GB57253@comp.chem.msu.su> <200703051314.29902@aldan> <20070305191714.GF57253@comp.chem.msu.su> <20070305193022.GM10453@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <000b01c75f6b$594c23d0$0c00a8c0@Artem> <2a41acea0703051355n5148d19cp36bc425ecd054add@mail.gmail.com> <008201c75fcc$21302940$0c00a8c0@Artem> <2a41acea0703061004n62eb213fsec9904e263669ac5@mail.gmail.com> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot prompt for Intel AMT X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 21:09:25 -0000 On 3/6/07, Vivek Khera wrote: > > On Mar 6, 2007, at 1:04 PM, Jack Vogel wrote: > > > Yes, my bad, I spoke too quickly, it does use IP, sorry, > > I still find SOL much more descriptive of what I think about > > the whole apparatus however :) > > :-) > > Personally, I really like the Sun ILOM processors, even though they > do boot an embedded linux, and the command set is, shall we say, > confusing... > > It scares me to have something like SOL on an ethernet that's > connected to the public wires. Yes, this was a concern while i was at IBM as well, they were talking about configurations that would have the 'management' net seperated out from the public. That seems very expensive on infrastructure to me. Course when you have server farms with thousands of systems I suppose its complicated anyway. Jack