Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 23:48:47 +0000 From: Scott Mitchell <scott+lists.freebsd@fishballoon.org> To: Marian Hettwer <MH@kernel32.de> Cc: Vivek Khera <vivek@khera.org>, freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 6.0 on Dell 1850 with DRAC4 management card? Message-ID: <20060106234847.GB997@tuatara.fishballoon.org> In-Reply-To: <43BE992C.5030506@kernel32.de> References: <20060106135717.GA20651@llama.fishballoon.org> <43BE8304.2010709@kernel32.de> <DD400FE7-3B39-42E2-BD97-169D0CFAE565@khera.org> <43BE992C.5030506@kernel32.de>
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On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 05:22:04PM +0100, Marian Hettwer wrote: > > 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. Thanks all for the replies - this is good stuff. I have been thinking about something like that - we have a bunch of old Sun boxes with their serial ports chained together for console access, would be nice to have that done properly. On the other hand the Windows guys seem to really like the DRAC cards on the Dells they look after. > > 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. I agree that is the best way. Sun have got this right on their Opteron servers: Ethernet port for the management board, ssh access into that then just start a console session. Cheers, Scott -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" scott at fishballoon.org | 0xAA775B8B | -- Anon
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