>> If your (server-class) machine has a networked IPMI BMC >> then you can do remote reset with it just as well if the >> machine runs LinuxBIOS as it would with the vendor BIOS. >> Well it *should* work, who knows :-) > > Yeah, quite. While I *have* got one IPMI card working with LinuxBIOS, > in my > experience most IPMI implementations are prime examples of why > proprietary > software is bad.
Yeah, don't construe my comments as a recommendation to use IPMI. I was just pointing how remote reset typically works with current machines. > I have yet to encounter an IPMI card that is stable and > adheres to the spec. The situation is improving somewhat with IPMI > 2.0, but > vendors are still pushing out extremely buggy products, with even > buggier > proprietary IPMI client software. And there's no indication this situation will improve any time soon. > And the console redirection they provide is most often a graphical > console, which makes things slow. Also, console redirection requires > help of > browser applets that are often unreliable. I have used them > successfully > though to power-toggle machines - that part seems more or less > reliable. (Graphical) console redirection isn't a good solution for non-mswindows machines, it's way too fragile. For anything sane good solutions exist already (serial lines, telnet, that kind of thing). Not much consumer-class stuff has support for these things built in though. Segher -- linuxbios mailing list [email protected] http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
