Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 18:46:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> To: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net> Cc: FreeBSD current mailing list <current@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: ethercons updated for -CURRENT Message-ID: <20040709184308.A60026@carver.gumbysoft.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.53.0407091056050.59767@e0-0.zab2.int.zabbadoz.net> References: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1040709005644.60816F-100000@fledge.watson.org> <Pine.BSF.4.53.0407091056050.59767@e0-0.zab2.int.zabbadoz.net>
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On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: > from what I had been told: > Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF, http://www.dmtf.org/) is > working on a standard called "Remote Management Control Protocol" (RMCP). > One part of this work is SOL (Serial over LAN) which is based upon RFC2217. > > Perhaps this will be the way to go in the future. This got integrated into IPMI 2.0, and is available on shipping hardware. If I can ever locate some of said hardware, I'll try to implement a tool to attach to it. In the interim the vendor usually provides a Windows tool. The RMCP+/IPMI SOL does not use Telnet as an underlying protocol so it doesn't use RFC2217. -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.org
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