[TriLUG] Drop and insert transparent firewall (OpenBSD)

[Lee]

Jason Tower wrote:

>management is also different from most linux setups.  since it has no IP 
>addresses on either interface, you can't ssh to it.  instead, you ssh 
>to another host and run minicom which communicates with the firewall 
>via a serial port.  this particular hardware has the ability to direct 
>the bios display to a serial port, so you can actually see the bootup 
>info and even change bios options remotely.  pretty slick :-)
>  
>
Jason,
What hardware did you use? x86's lack of ability to have a true serial 
console has always irked me. Unless of course you used one of those 
add-in cards that translates the kb/video into serial.