On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 07:50:52PM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote: > I normally go for the time-honoured serial console to a box running > conserver and a masterswitch though (on a separate lan: you don't > really want this sort of thing, ILO/DRAC or masterswitch or IP KVM > or whatever else, on your main lan unprotected). And it's supposed to be out of band and not shared with the main network to be really useful when you need it.
Serial consoles are easily accessed with a telephone modem connected to the console server, redundant networking is much more complex (and I'd say less foolproof). -- Jussi Peltola
