Re: Problems with IPMI and wm? sharing a physical Ethernet port

[mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)]

tls%panix.com@localhost (Thor Lancelot Simon) writes:

>It also presents something very, very different when you SSH to it -- if
>it has firmware that can do SSH at all.  You get a strange, broken little
>interpreter for some pseudostandard system management environment; definitely
>not busybox.

Sounds like SMASH CLP, which is definitely a standard at least regarding
syntax. See http://dmtf.org/standards/smash.

>I wish they hadn't monkeyed around with the VNC protocol.  Then at least
>using the graphical console forwarding would be an option.

Yep, so far they all deliver a usually pretty broken Java applet, that,
if it works, is ugly and slow and very limited to use.

Saying that, the Fujitsu boxes here have a better one, even with a virtual
keyboard to send arbitrary keypresses. And for people that use Windows
and where putty is considered evil they also have a java applet that
launches a telnet or ssh session to the command line interface.

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