Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 09:10:25 -0500 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> To: Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: serial/ether console & ramblings Message-ID: <426CFA51.3060003@centtech.com> In-Reply-To: <E1DQ2Gt-000C9O-Jx@cs1.cs.huji.ac.il> References: <E1DQ2Gt-000C9O-Jx@cs1.cs.huji.ac.il>
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Danny Braniss wrote: > hi, > I was about to plunge in and 'try' to cleanup the serial console > stuff, when it downed on me that newer machines are arriving without serial > port! there goes that idea. So USB/serial dongle came to mind, might > work, but messy, FireWire is not universaly available. > So, why not serial over ethernet? IPMI 'was' to have solved > this, but it will (if at all) work on server class MB only, and im still > looking for a Unix Viewer. > > In my case, i have been using the serial console to debug stuff, but > being of the old school, i try to stay away from debuggers :-), so > printf and stack trace will do. > > So here are some of my quesions: > o - is there some standard? ok, refrase, are there some > standards? > o - any WIP?, i'm checking out Robert Watson's ethercons > o - any great ideas? There are a couple of ports that seem to try to use IPMI. I haven't tried them yet though. (sysutils/freeipmi and sysutils/ipmitool). I can tell you that being about to do serial over ethernet (and possibly power cycling) would be incredibly handy. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology A lost ounce of gold may be found, a lost moment of time never. ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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