[ILUG] [OT] Irish colo hosts with serial console

[Conor Wynne]

> On 10 Jun 2005, at 10:37, Paul Jakma wrote:
>
>>> which can do serial console (NOT IP KVM or any of that crap) for free
>>> or
>>
>> Just curious, but what's wrong with 'IP KVM'? And how does it differ
>> from serial console?

You can enter the BIOS, raid controller etc etc. You cannot do that with
serial redirection.

> IP KVM is fine and dandy if you have hardware which can work with it
> which, as Niall clearly pointed out, he doesn't.

Yeah, KVM IP is excellent if your system wont boot past runlevel 1, or
worse. I would rather live with that than be forced to drive God knows
where to fix an issue in the middle of the night.

> Niall (another one)
>
> --

Regards
Conor.

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