From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 26 03:00:09 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14AE337B401 for ; Mon, 26 May 2003 03:00:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailhost.stack.nl (vaak.stack.nl [131.155.140.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1031C43F3F for ; Mon, 26 May 2003 03:00:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dean@dragon.stack.nl) Received: by mailhost.stack.nl (Postfix, from userid 65534) id A59911F109; Mon, 26 May 2003 12:00:06 +0200 (CEST) Received: from dragon.stack.nl (dragon.stack.nl [2001:610:1108:5011:207:e9ff:fe09:230]) by mailhost.stack.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96C721F106; Mon, 26 May 2003 12:00:01 +0200 (CEST) Received: by dragon.stack.nl (Postfix, from userid 1600) id 714425F176; Mon, 26 May 2003 12:00:01 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 12:00:01 +0200 From: Dean Strik To: Terry Lambert Message-ID: <20030526100001.GB19105@dragon.stack.nl> References: <20030526041513.GP81874@procyon.firepipe.net> <20030526085938.GA70751@freebie.xs4all.nl> <3ED1E174.1FF28676@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3ED1E174.1FF28676@mindspring.com> X-Editor: VIM Rulez! http://www.vim.org/ X-MUD: Outerspace - telnet://mud.stack.nl:3333 X-Really: Yes User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-29.3 required=5.0 tests=EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,REFERENCES,REPLY_WITH_QUOTES, USER_AGENT_MUTT version=2.50 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org cc: Will Andrews Subject: Re: Best serial console server construction method? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 10:00:09 -0000 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