Re: UltraSparc documentation

2005-12-09 Thread Amit Kulkarni
David Weaver has posted some more stuff, which you might want to read. Hopefully, it all pans out. P.S: Theo, sorry for the resend.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] didn't work for some reason, trying a resend. Thanks http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/jclingan?entry=what_do_you_think_of#comments We

Re: UltraSparc documentation

2005-12-09 Thread Theo de Raadt
David Weaver has posted some more stuff, which you might want to read. None of which matters at all. Years ago Sun refused us documentation. Nothing has changed. All Sun is trying to do is act fluffy, when they are not.

Re: UltraSparc documentation

2005-12-08 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2005/12/08 16:12:58, Shane J Pearson wrote: On 08/12/2005, at 11:05 AM, Craig Skinner wrote: I'm going to be buying some hardware for offiste colos next year and was thinking of getting some used Netras. The Sparc64 support page: http://www.openbsd.org/sparc64.html Shows various

Re: UltraSparc documentation

2005-12-08 Thread Craig Skinner
On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 05:35:14PM -0800, Raymond Lillard wrote: I have been collecting used Netra T1-105 boxes and placing them in service of the last year and a bit. I find the combination of them and OBSD to be a rock solid solution for intermediate levels of traffic. I especially like

Re: UltraSparc documentation

2005-12-08 Thread Craig Skinner
On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 11:24:18AM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: The PCI slot on the Netra T1 isn't fully supported, but otherwise They have 2 onboard network ports, so that should hopefully be enough in a colo environment. they seem to work quite well. (`make build' takes a while, though!)

Re: UltraSparc documentation

2005-12-08 Thread Craig Skinner
On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 12:44:32AM -0500, Brian A. Seklecki wrote: There is the (expensive) Real Weasel for x86 kit, Dell's crappy lights DRAC/4 isn't that bad :} You can always use serial console redirection on the 1850s/2850s; it works well until OS boot (BIOS menus works, RAID, IPMI

Re: UltraSparc documentation

2005-12-08 Thread Craig Skinner
On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 09:34:40AM +0100, Nick Nauwelaerts wrote: And as others have stated as well, x86 has some decent remote console options as well now. While I wouldn't try those compaq cards (frustratingly slow), new HP ILO implementations work great for us. Either direct ssh access to

UltraSparc documentation

2005-12-07 Thread Amit V Kulkarni
I remember reading about the issue with UltraSparc documentation. Derek Warren has raised teh point in a blog comment on John Clingan's blog here. http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/jclingan?entry=what_do_you_think_of#comments HTH

Re: UltraSparc documentation

2005-12-07 Thread Theo de Raadt
I remember reading about the issue with UltraSparc documentation. Derek Warren has raised teh point in a blog comment on John Clingan's blog here. http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/jclingan?entry=what_do_you_think_of#comments We don't need processor docs. That stuff is trivial. We need

Re: UltraSparc documentation

2005-12-07 Thread Theo de Raadt
I remember reading about the issue with UltraSparc documentation. Derek Warren has raised teh point in a blog comment on John Clingan's blog here. http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/jclingan?entry=what_do_you_think_of#comments We don't need processor docs. That stuff is trivial. We

Re: UltraSparc documentation

2005-12-07 Thread Craig Skinner
On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 11:40:28AM -0700, Theo de Raadt wrote: Want to be clear with Sun? They are closed until we there is complete Schizo host-bridge documentation available for everyone. So would it be wise to avoid Sun Sparc kit? I'm going to be buying some hardware for offiste

Re: UltraSparc documentation

2005-12-07 Thread Steve Shockley
Craig Skinner wrote: There is the (expensive) Real Weasel for x86 kit, Dell's crappy lights out card isn't a reliable option. Compaq's remote card isn't bad, it works in any ATX PC and they're like $5-10 on eBay. The remote console requires Java on the controlling machine which makes it a

Re: UltraSparc documentation

2005-12-07 Thread Shane J Pearson
Craig, On 08/12/2005, at 11:05 AM, Craig Skinner wrote: I'm going to be buying some hardware for offiste colos next year and was thinking of getting some used Netras. The Sparc64 support page: http://www.openbsd.org/sparc64.html Shows various Netra machines as being supported. Shane

Re: UltraSparc documentation

2005-12-07 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
There is the (expensive) Real Weasel for x86 kit, Dell's crappy lights DRAC/4 isn't that bad :} You can always use serial console redirection on the 1850s/2850s; it works well until OS boot (BIOS menus works, RAID, IPMI menus), when you have to setup serial console redirection on the boot