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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>
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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.

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