[syslinux] com32 ssh/telnet support?

[Miller, Shao]

Good day Ryan,

Regarding a COM32 module that would run and wait for an incoming network
connection for console control, perhaps via SSH or telnet:

I think that better than that would be something which mimics HP's iLO
functionality.  Such would allow keystrokes, etc. from network, while
also showing the action at the terminal itself.  Establishing BIOS
drives remotely on-demand might be handy, too.  If only there were a way
to jump into BIOS setup from PXELINUX, this would be quite powerful.

To avoid implementing a TCP stack in PXELINUX, one could theoretically
take advantage of a gPXE -> PXELINUX -> COM32 scenario, where PXELINUX
could use gPXE-provided extensions for additional networking features.

However, if you have the need be doing things manually on your nodes, it
might be good to understand why.  There's a lot of automation possible
with tools like PXELINUX and gPXE, including capturing client-specific
info and having a web-server dynamically generate instructions for the
client based on that captured info.  If you describe a little more about
why you have to do some things manually, perhaps someone on this
mailing-list might have some suggestions for you.

- Shao Miller