Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 12:00:01 +0200 From: Dean Strik <dean@stack.nl> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: Will Andrews <will@csociety.org> Subject: Re: Best serial console server construction method? Message-ID: <20030526100001.GB19105@dragon.stack.nl> In-Reply-To: <3ED1E174.1FF28676@mindspring.com> References: <20030526041513.GP81874@procyon.firepipe.net> <20030526085938.GA70751@freebie.xs4all.nl> <3ED1E174.1FF28676@mindspring.com>
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Terry Lambert wrote: > Be careful buying old DEC Servers, if you don't have a VMS > or Tru64 box around; when they boot, they ask for their > MOP_MOM. 8-). Basically, their firmware gets downloaded > via MOP, and they need something to talk to them to be able > to boot (MOP = Maintenance Operations Protocol). There are DECserver 700s that boot using BOOTP, fortunately. Of course, one still needs the WWENG2 file... -- Dean C. Strik Eindhoven University of Technology dean@stack.nl | dean@ipnet6.org | http://www.ipnet6.org/ "This isn't right. This isn't even wrong." -- Wolfgang Pauli
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