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Subject: Re: Serial console rack-mount boxen for firewalls (Was: NAT and
From: Carson Gaspar (carsontaltos.org)
Date: Mon Dec 04 2000 - 18:03:39 CST

--On Monday, December 04, 2000 6:16 PM -0500 "Paul D. Robertson"
<probertsclark.net> wrote:

> Serial ports come on all motherboards, what would be the reasoning for
> special hardware? I'd imagine any 1U PC should be fine with a terminal
> controller hooked to it, or did I miss something?

Very few PC-style boxen let you change the BIOS over the serial port.
Serial consoles are great once the OS boots. If the OS doesn't boot, you're
kinda' hosed. Now if the bootstrap loader supports a serial console and
lets you do a network install, you're not as bad off, but I want a box that
_never_ tries to use KVM, just the serial port. A few such boxen have been
recommended at this point - if this project gets the go-ahead, I'll do an
eval and post the results. 

-- 
Carson Gaspar - carsontaltos.org
Queen trapped in a butch body
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