ethercons updated for -CURRENT

[Daniel O'Connor]

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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.

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