Garrett D'Amore writes: > We don't "control" this fully... customers can configure BIOS on systems > they bought from vendors like Dell, however they please. > > What we can say is, configuration in modes other than a simple set are > unsupported on Solaris.
Exactly. We control our documentation, and we have to tell customers what we support and expect. They should _not_ just be left to wander into these dark corners by themselves. > I do want to point out that the failure mode for most of these > interoperability issues is loss of access to AMT facilities. This will Actually, the failure mode that perhaps concerns us most is "AMT doesn't work with Solaris, but works fine with Linux and Windows on the same system; need escalation to management for a fix." > Yes. This is why LMS *must* bind to those ports. A failure to bind to > those ports indicates something else is bound, and that should be > syslog'ed with a big warning. And using the undocumented TCP_EXCLBIND ... ? Otherwise, we allow applications to bind underneath open wildcard sockets. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <james.d.carlson at sun.com> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677
