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Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 23:21:07 -0600
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From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
Subject: Intel motherboard "Ethernet console"
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I'm working with an Intel motherboard whose BIOS setup screen says that 
it has an "Ethernet console" -- in other words, you can supposedly use 
another system as the console if you attach an Ethernet cable and speak 
the proper protocol. But what protocol is it? The BIOS almost certainly 
doesn't have a full TCP/IP implementation, so it can't be telnet. Is it 
LAT? Something unique? Any ideas welcomed.

--Brett Glass


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