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).
It might take a little more setup than serial (ie you might not be able to do it before RAM init) I guess, as you have to detect media, and do dhcp (though you could run over raw ethernet in broadcast mode). Is this sensible? Justin
