how to access the SOL (Serial over Lan) port in FreeBSD ?

Luigi Rizzo rizzo at iet.unipi.it
Tue Dec 14 22:06:17 UTC 2010


On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 09:39:31PM +0100, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Dec 2010 20:35:50 +0100
> Luigi Rizzo <rizzo at iet.unipi.it> wrote:
> 
> > i recently bought two motherboards with Intel AMT support,
> > a remote management tool which among other things implements
> > Serial Over Lan (SOL) -- which seems to be accessible
> > via TCP port 16994
> > 
> > I have enabled the feature in the bios and built a client
> 
> And configured it?
> See http://linux.die.net/man/7/amt-howto

yes, some of the other features do work (power and status, accessible
through the web on port 16992 or using amttool).
The terminal support is apparently enabled (amtterm does the
negotiation, and if i disable it then port 16994 is not accessible).

cheers
luigi


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