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From: Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il>
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> On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 16:40, Danny Braniss wrote:
> > The upshot off all this is, if the SOL works, then we can kiss KVM aw=
ay,
> > and as Robert said, just power and ethernet and you are set.
> =

> You could probably use fwcons (I've only used it a little to test) but =
I think =

> once it's enabled the target doesn't have to be cooperative for it to w=
ork =

> (although then you need to run firewire to your boxes as well as ethern=
et)
> =


serial/firewire are ok for one computer, but when you have several, then
this does not scale (imaging a cabinet with 30 1U boxes :-).

appart from that, ethernet (once you overcome some basic security issues)=

is great to get the console.

danny