Rackmountable "serial console" ...

[Samuel Clements]

Or you can invest in a server board that does serial over lan. This combined
with BIOS re-direction to the serial port can give you a solution where you
telnet into a proxy that connects to the SOL interface and you get BIOS (yes
you can even go into it to change boot devices, etc) as well as watch the
boot messages that are re-directed to the serial port. This ends up being an
OS Independent solution so no matter what OS your running; you have a
telnetable way to look at the serial port.
  -Sam

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-hardware at freebsd.org
[mailto:owner-freebsd-hardware at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Marc G. Fournier
Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 9:56 AM
To: freebsd-hardware at freebsd.org
Subject: Rackmountable "serial console" ...


vs the KVM over Ethernet ... what is available out there?  I know I lose
the ability to 'watch the boot' vefore the OS cuts in, so BIOS stuff would
still require hands on, but any recommendations on one that works well
with FreeBSD, especially as far as being able to get into the debugger and
whatnot?

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Marc G. Fournier           Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org)
Email: scrappy at hub.org           Yahoo!: yscrappy              ICQ: 7615664
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