[TriLUG] Drop and insert transparent firewall (OpenBSD)

[David A. Cafaro]

I have a low-end Dell PowerEdge 650 (1U Celeron) that supports setting
the serial port to act as a terminal console in bios.  Haven't played
with it yet, but the option is there.

On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 09:59, Lee wrote:
> 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.
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David A. Cafaro <dac(at)cafaro.net>
Sys Admin to User: "You did what?!?"