Stephen Powell put forth on 3/31/2011 6:30 AM: <snip> > You can't > reverse the direction of communications without physical access to > *both* servers. That is why you need two serial ports on each server > and two properly-wired cross-over cables. If you only care about > one-way control, then why do you even care about being able to > reverse the direction of communications?
This is exactly why all tier one, and some tier 2, vendors ship servers with lights out management boards pre-installed. This is also exactly why their predecessor, rack mount KVM over IP devices, were invented, oh so long ago. I dare say that if you're too cheap to use one of these proven solutions then you have no business running a server that needs uptime and quick diagnosis upon failure. -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4d94a814.1030...@hardwarefreak.com
