Re: [pfSense] supermicro SOL console

2012-06-29 Thread Vick Khera
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Jim Pingle li...@pingle.org wrote: Use /boot/loader.conf.local - that won't get overwritten. The other two will. Based on this, my revised configuration is to create /boot/loader.conf.local: hint.uart.2.at=isa hint.uart.2.port=0x3E8 hint.uart.2.flags=0x10

Re: [pfSense] supermicro SOL console

2012-06-29 Thread Adam Thompson
One thing... SuperMicro IPMI BMCs should redirect COM1 if the internal connections are cabled properly... in which case the standard Embedded distro would work properly. Otherwise, what you're doing is identical to running an embedded system with 3 ordinary COM ports, and having the console on

[pfSense] supermicro SOL console

2012-06-22 Thread Vick Khera
So I just figured this nifty trick out. I provisioned a pair of servers based on supermicro X9SC motherboard, which has a built-in ILOM processor, and that provides a serial-over-lan serial port in addition to other administrative features. It was exceptionally easy to convince pfsense to use

Re: [pfSense] supermicro SOL console

2012-06-22 Thread Jim Pingle
On 6/22/2012 12:05 PM, Vick Khera wrote: 1) edit /boot/loader.conf to add these lines: 2) edit /etc/ttys: 3) create /boot.config with these contents: -Dh -S115200 Question: which of these files will be smashed on pfsense upgrade? I already discovered that /boot.config gets overwritten when