From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Aug 3 10:41:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from jade.chc-chimes.com (jade.chc-chimes.com [216.28.46.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D792037B566 for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 10:41:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from billf@jade.chc-chimes.com) Received: by jade.chc-chimes.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 0E7611C70; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 13:41:33 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 13:41:33 -0400 From: Bill Fumerola To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading from 4.1-R to 4.1-S Message-ID: <20000803134132.S58109@jade.chc-chimes.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 07:29:35PM +0200, Gabriel Ambuehl wrote: > >> One problem persists: How should I drop to singleuser mode on > >> colocated servers? Pretty hard to do without driving to them. > > Serial consoles and OOB access make the world go 'round. > > Sorry, but what's OOB? I think it should be possible to cross connect > each two boxes with null modem cables (dunno if there's another word > for them in English) in order to get serial access, am I right? > (will try it as soon as I can get hands on cables -> tomorrow ;-) Out of band. Serial cables cross connects, modems, a NOC monkey at the terminal, remote consoles, etc. > But OTOH, at the moment, it'd take approx. 45 min to get to the servers > using public transport system, some minutes less but with the risk of > traffic jams if by car or, perhaps the best solution if weather allows > it, motorbike: Switzerland's small. Yep. In rush hour it takes me 45min of crappy traffic, no traffic I can make it in 15min. We use a cisco 2511 with lots of serial cables, but we have more then 2 machines. -- Bill Fumerola - Network Architect, BOFH / Chimes, Inc. billf@chimesnet.com / billf@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message