Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 19:42:23 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> Cc: FreeBSD current mailing list <current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ethercons updated for -CURRENT Message-ID: <200407101942.24055.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200407100959.i6A9xdAk035631@cain.gsoft.com.au> References: <200407100959.i6A9xdAk035631@cain.gsoft.com.au>
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=2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 19:29, Danny Braniss wrote: > > 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 work (although then you need to run firewire to your boxes as well as > > ethernet) > > serial/firewire are ok for one computer, but when you have several, then > this does not scale (imaging a cabinet with 30 1U boxes :-). Weell.. You can get Firewire hubs. Not sure how much routing the do. (ie if they are like ethernet switches or hubs) They're a bit more expensive than ethernet tho :) > appart from that, ethernet (once you overcome some basic security issues) > is great to get the console. Yeah. =2D --=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFA78EI5ZPcIHs/zowRAsYlAJ9b6cndOPaLWXufnTDSrxf7jQtaoQCgmAy9 R8DZm29Uoe39XjPN9I30N/8=3D =3D/+tg =2D----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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