Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 13:03:38 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> To: Andrew Gordon <arg-bsd@arg1.demon.co.uk> Cc: Lucky Green <shamrock@cypherpunks.to>, <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: L440gx+ serial BIOS needs text mode Message-ID: <20030206130208.A60537-100000@carver.gumbysoft.com> In-Reply-To: <20030204000002.P42367-100000@server.arg.sj.co.uk>
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On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Andrew Gordon wrote: > - On the latest machines featuring 'serial over LAN', you can > persuade the management CPU to subvert the serial port and > pass the data over one of the ethernet ports. This seems to use > a proprietary protocol, but if you have one Windows machine > somewhere with the Intel management software loaded on it, you > can use that to proxy the protocol for any number of managed > machines - ie. telnet to port 623 on the Windows machine, then > connect back to the target machine and get attached to the > serial console (and so get a FreeBSD login, if that's what is > running on COM2). I'd love to get the spec on this -- its a proprietary Intel feature and they won't cough up the spec unless you're a high volume integrator or have money and NDAs. > - Medium-aged machines seem to have all the hardware to subvert the > serial and ethernet ports, but won't do serial redirection apart > from controlling the BIOS. Upgrading the BMC software didn't > help on the machine I had in this category. No big loss for FreeBSD of course :) -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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