From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 6 17:20:06 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 00CE216A41F for ; Fri, 6 Jan 2006 17:20:06 +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 7947243D46 for ; Fri, 6 Jan 2006 17:20:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from MH@kernel32.de) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by crivens.unixoid.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B8F441BD; Fri, 6 Jan 2006 18:20:03 +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 11077-20; Fri, 6 Jan 2006 18:19:59 +0100 (CET) Received: from [10.38.0.120] (unknown [213.238.63.253]) by crivens.unixoid.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C58D3F7E; Fri, 6 Jan 2006 18:19:59 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <43BEA7C5.9040206@kernel32.de> Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 18:24:21 +0100 From: Marian Hettwer User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Macintosh/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: rhempel@bmts.com References: <20060106135717.GA20651@llama.fishballoon.org> <43BE8304.2010709@kernel32.de> <43BE98F3.3000507@bmts.com> <43BE9BB6.2000002@kernel32.de> <43BE9C99.5050201@bmts.com> In-Reply-To: <43BE9C99.5050201@bmts.com> 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 17:20:06 -0000 Hej there, Ralph Hempel wrote: > Yes, you get that too. Full hardware power down. Wait as long as > you want, then power the machine up. It's not the same as a remote > reboot where you HOPE the server comes up far enough to get > a console session. > Well, if the BIOS can do console redirection, the server will come up far enough ;) If I don't see a BIOS screen, although console redirection is enabled, there's something really really wrong... > Plus you don't need anything mote than an Ethernet connection to > your existing infrastructure to make it all work. > same counts for a console server (say 48 ports, 1 U) and all servers connected to it. One IP adress, ethernet... > If you are paranoid and/or have a lot of servers, you can > put all the DRAC ports on a separate subnet and their own > VPN... > I would do that anyway... IMO an out-of-band network belongs into its own subnet (vlan) and you want to secure it in some way for remote access (ssh only, VPN, whatever) Marian