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). > > 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
Rather than dhcp or broadcasting everything, you could broadcast a request for the MAC address of the console. ...all raw ethernet as you suggested. Sort of an ARP request, but special. Also sort of like broadcasting to find a DHCP server. Ty -- Tyson D Sawyer iRobot Corporation Senior Systems Engineer Military Systems Division [EMAIL PROTECTED] Robots for the Real World 603-532-6900 ext 206 http://www.irobot.com
