Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 10:43:52 -0500 From: Vivek Khera <vivek@khera.org> To: freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 6.0 on Dell 1850 with DRAC4 management card? Message-ID: <DD400FE7-3B39-42E2-BD97-169D0CFAE565@khera.org> In-Reply-To: <43BE8304.2010709@kernel32.de> References: <20060106135717.GA20651@llama.fishballoon.org> <43BE8304.2010709@kernel32.de>
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On Jan 6, 2006, at 9:47 AM, Marian Hettwer wrote: > I don't know about the DRAC with FreeBSD, but I assume that the > BIOS of > this Dell still supports BIOS redirection to serial port. If so, > you can > have Monitor and Keyboard connected locally and use the serial console > remote. > Just get a small console server (depending on the amount of servers > you > have remote), for instance an old cyclades TS. Connect them and you > can > get on your serial port through the console server via ssh. This is precisely what I do. The cyclades work extremely well, except for one flaw: if you power cycle them they send a BREAK signal down every serial port. So just make sure you don't have BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER enabled on your kernels and you're safe. Otherwise expect every server to break to debugger on a power cycle of your cyclade. Not that you need to ever reboot those little boxes, but you never know.... I've never enabled the DRAC card on any dell I have that came with them...
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