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Date:      Tue, 12 Apr 2005 08:51:32 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
To:        Michael Vince <mv@roq.com>
Cc:        Marian Hettwer <MH@kernel32.de>
Subject:   Re: Serial console install
Message-ID:  <20050412084854.W2178@carver.gumbysoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <42598382.5020509@roq.com>
References:  <787bbe1c0504070307670f5e5d@mail.gmail.com> <4255182E.1020002@centtech.com><42551E94.30800@centtech.com> <787bbe1c05040705254c89fea@mail.gmail.com> <42598382.5020509@roq.com>

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On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, Michael Vince wrote:

> Also I would like to make aware to the discussion IPMI which I believe
> in Version 2 has console support,
> This stuff seems to be the future of serial console, I have found it
> frustrating that Dell sell most of their servers with only 1 serial
> port, I believe there excuse is IPMI.
>
> http://people.freebsd.org/~dwhite/ipmi/
> http://www.intel.com/design/servers/ipmi/
> http://www.freebsdsystems.com/ipmi-tech.php

This just rebroadcasts the BIOS console redirection. Once FreeBSD starts
up that goes away.

I looked at implementing an IPMIv2 console client and gave up since the
serial console protocol is gnarly.

-- 
Doug White                    |  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
dwhite@gumbysoft.com          |  www.FreeBSD.org



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