On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Andrew Gordon wrote: > - On the latest machines featuring 'serial over LAN', you can > persuade the management CPU to subvert the serial port and > pass the data over one of the ethernet ports. This seems to use > a proprietary protocol, but if you have one Windows machine > somewhere with the Intel management software loaded on it, you > can use that to proxy the protocol for any number of managed > machines - ie. telnet to port 623 on the Windows machine, then > connect back to the target machine and get attached to the > serial console (and so get a FreeBSD login, if that's what is > running on COM2).
I'd love to get the spec on this -- its a proprietary Intel feature and they won't cough up the spec unless you're a high volume integrator or have money and NDAs. > - Medium-aged machines seem to have all the hardware to subvert the > serial and ethernet ports, but won't do serial redirection apart > from controlling the BIOS. Upgrading the BMC software didn't > help on the machine I had in this category. No big loss for FreeBSD of course :) -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
