> On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 05:31:57PM -0600, Matt Fair wrote: > :I am managing my server remotely using ssh. If my network connection > :goes down for some reason, I have no control over it, is there a way > :where I could check to see if there is a network connection and then > :restart the connection? > > best option is to recompile the kernel on the server to put the > console out to serial port (is this default in debian kernels? if not > what problems does it create, I always roll mine that way), then you > can hang a modem off the serial port and even if the networking on the > server breaks you can get in to try and fix it.
Would this be a dial-in connection to the computer to manage it? What I need is to manage the computer remoteley all the way back to the lilo prompt. Are there any how-to's to do this? What other equipment would I need for this? Would there be any way to encrypt the session? Thanks Matt