Redirect your console to the network
Hi, I just came across this and I thought I'd pass it along as a nice tool to have. Especially when one doesn't have VGA and serial isn't working for you. I hope someone else finds it as useful for them as it does for me:) http://technocrat.net/article.pl?sid=04/08/14/0236245mode=nested Enjoy, Dave
Re: Redirect your console to the network
yes, we have used that off and on for a while. I hope they improved it to be a real module, but if not I have an iproved version here ... thanks for the pointer. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
RE: Redirect your console to the network
Hey Ron, If your tool doesn't have to support polling can you please pass that on to me? That's one side effect of the netconsole tool. You need to have polling enabled in the Network driver. I've been having trouble getting that to fly actually. Thanks, Dave -Original Message- From: ron minnich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 11:08 AM To: Dave Aubin Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Redirect your console to the network yes, we have used that off and on for a while. I hope they improved it to be a real module, but if not I have an iproved version here ... thanks for the pointer. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
RE: Redirect your console to the network
I'll try to find it. The other change I made was to turn it into a real device (which they may also have done) and have it not start sending output until the first open. This change was needed to ensure it would not try to use the network stack until it was actually there ... ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
RE: Redirect your console to the network
How to get netconsole to work: 1. Build your 2.6 kernel with tg3 support AND netconsole as part of the kernel A. This is the easiest way, I couldn't do it via modules as I couldn't get the polling to work. 2. Pass in to the kernel as a parameter the netconsole information A. This will automatically send the console information to the destination address when eth0 is up. Doing this worked for me, but a little bit of a pain was involved. Hope this helped. Dave -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Aubin Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 3:12 PM To: ron minnich Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Redirect your console to the network Hey Ron, If your tool doesn't have to support polling can you please pass that on to me? That's one side effect of the netconsole tool. You need to have polling enabled in the Network driver. I've been having trouble getting that to fly actually. Thanks, Dave -Original Message- From: ron minnich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 11:08 AM To: Dave Aubin Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Redirect your console to the network yes, we have used that off and on for a while. I hope they improved it to be a real module, but if not I have an iproved version here ... thanks for the pointer. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
RE: Redirect your console to the network
Hello from Gregg C Levine Ron, Dave, is this something that became part of the basic 2.6 series kernel? I looked at the website that Dave suggested, and it looks to be something that makes sense. However, I'm wrapped up in something else, and I can't test a 2.6 kernel for a while. I should have an idea in about 20 days or so, that's when an evaluation for one of my examples is up. Ron if you don't want me sending some messages directly to you, and to the correspondent, (Dave), and then to the list, I'll delete your address from the To: entry next time. --- Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Force will be with you...Always. Obi-Wan Kenobi Use the Force, Luke. Obi-Wan Kenobi -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:linuxbios- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ron minnich Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 3:23 PM To: Dave Aubin Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Redirect your console to the network I'll try to find it. The other change I made was to turn it into a real device (which they may also have done) and have it not start sending output until the first open. This change was needed to ensure it would not try to use the network stack until it was actually there ... ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
