Justin Cormack wrote: >What do people do when they get very large numbers of serial consoles? > >I was wondering if using etherboot-like network drivers (ie no dma) to run >the console would be any less reliable than a serial console? As I am using >gigabit ethernet there is often a spare motherboard ethernet (as you >obvioously dont want to run the main ether like this), and it could be on >a dedicated network for security (especially if you feed udp packets into >the console). >
patches already exist (outside the kernel tree) to do netconsole, for Linux kernel 2.4.x.
