Eric Anderson wrote: > 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 > > > NIC drivers have to be made aware of IPMI in order for it to function when a shared NIC is used. This is not the case with the bge driver, at the very least. See: http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/freebsd-net/2005-March/thread.html#6725 This is also a very big issue for us and we're considering hiring a contractor to get the relevant parts put into the driver...Received on Mon Apr 25 2005 - 15:27:26 UTC
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