Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 12:45:59 -0500 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> To: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> Cc: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@freebsd.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Opinions Wanted] Dell PowerEdge 2950 Servers ... Message-ID: <20070126124559.57547ff3.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> In-Reply-To: <20070126174045.GB38317@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> References: <45C70401CEDC85AA7A692962@ganymede.hub.org> <20070126085943.57633f7b.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> <20070126174045.GB38317@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>
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In response to Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu>: > On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 08:59:43AM -0500, Bill Moran wrote: > > > In response to "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@freebsd.org>: > > > > ... <Some excised> > > > > We have 4 1950s and 3 2950s in use around here. Only one is actually in > > production so far, the rest are still being configured, etc. > > > > We're mostly happy with them. The following is a list of caveats: > > > > *) The version 5 DRAC is nicer than the version 4, _except_ that you have > > to use a Windows client to connect to it. May not be an issue for you, > > but all our admins here use FreeBSD on their workstations :( > > Have you tried 'rdesktop' in the portst at /usr/ports/net/rdesktop > or /usr/ports/net/xrdesktop? > > I don't know if it would apply to this, but it works for me in > some other situations or similar MS annoyance. The Dell DRAC is not based on the RDP protocol. It uses some kind of Dell-specific communication that seems to mimic VNC -- but standard VNC clients don't work with it. Version 4 DRAC provided a java client that worked fine on just about any OS we use, but the DRAC 5 requires some ActiveX component and doesn't run on non-MS systems. Luckily, there's qemu, but it's still not a perfect match. Qemu tends to be s l o w. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc.
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