On 3/19/07, Russ Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 1. consolefs doesn't yet speak cec. (good soc project.)
as long as you have a cec client that presents a file,
consolefs should be able to read it. consolefs doesn't
speak serial either.
what is the relation between cec and this ethernet console?
http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/tech/freenix03/kistler.html
it would be nice if they could use the same protocols, though
i don't know how complicated the freenix one is. ericvh?
The freenix one was pretty dead stupid/simple. It just set the
protocol to 0x0666. To my knowledge, no one outside of us has every
really used the freenix console, although I did get a few requests for
the code over the years.
is the protocol documented somewhere other than the code?
Nope.
security?
Nope - I believe the paper makes the argument that you could use VLANs
to enforce security, but our primary use for the ethernet-based
console was purely pragmatic -- the hardware we had didn't have
serial, video, or any other means of getting output.
-eric
