From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 6 16:17:47 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E129216A41F for ; Fri, 6 Jan 2006 16:17:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from MH@kernel32.de) Received: from crivens.unixoid.de (crivens.unixoid.de [81.169.171.191]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6693743D46 for ; Fri, 6 Jan 2006 16:17:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from MH@kernel32.de) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by crivens.unixoid.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id D50964140; Fri, 6 Jan 2006 17:17:45 +0100 (CET) Received: from crivens.unixoid.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (crivens.unixoid.de [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 11077-10; Fri, 6 Jan 2006 17:17:42 +0100 (CET) Received: from [10.38.0.120] (unknown [213.238.63.253]) by crivens.unixoid.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4274D4006; Fri, 6 Jan 2006 17:17:42 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <43BE992C.5030506@kernel32.de> Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 17:22:04 +0100 From: Marian Hettwer User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Macintosh/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Vivek Khera References: <20060106135717.GA20651@llama.fishballoon.org> <43BE8304.2010709@kernel32.de> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.93.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at unixoid.de Cc: freebsd-stable Subject: Re: 6.0 on Dell 1850 with DRAC4 management card? 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: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 16:17:48 -0000 Vivek Khera wrote: > > 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.... > How old is your Cyclades box? Since mid 2002 these boxes don't send a break when power cycled. And I know what I say, being an ex-employee of cyclades (o' course, technician). We had customers with quite a large amount of sun servers and these are usually pretty sensitive regarding breaks. Never had an issue due to power cycles... hm... consider a replacement :) The old boxes had 5 years of warranty. So, go for it ;)) > I've never enabled the DRAC card on any dell I have that came with them... > I'd rather stick with a good old console which I can access remotely via ssh, too. So Long, Marian