[syslinux] com32 ssh/telnet support?

[Erwan Velu]

Ryan McLean a écrit :
[...]
> I was thinking ssh/telnet access to the PXELinux prompt would be nice 
> as I could ssh to a node tell it to reboot and then
> connect to PXELinux via ssh/telnet allowing me to choose one of my 
> menu items. Thus removing the need for the console access
> unless there was a serious problem that I couldn't solve via ssh.
>
> Personally I find serial to be outdated, it is getting rarer and rarer 
> to get laptops with serial connections, which will soon make it harder
> for me to wander into the server room with my laptop and hook it up to 
> a server. I do agree in an emergency serial can be invaluable
> but for day to day running I see no reason to use it. Especially since 
> ssh doesn't even require that I am on site.

Hey Ryan,
On my side, I use the serial-over-lan feature on the included IPMI BMC 
that my dell servers are running.
If your servers have some IPMI BMC (i.e all dell servers have one), a 
simple configuration in the bios will redirect the console output to 
your serial-over-lan feature included in the IPMI BMC. Thus, no more 
cabling, everything is already included.

This technique allow you to configure/control from the bios until the 
boot loader (pxelinux is this case).

Hope this helps,

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Erwan Velu
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Seanodes
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