[rescue] Serial Output via Ethernet wire

Bill Bradford rescue at sunhelp.org
Mon Nov 12 12:19:30 CST 2001


On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 01:23:26PM -0500, s at avoidant.org wrote:
> Yeah, but they'll autoboot when they power back on. IBut if they're on a
> UPS and the xyplex isn't, they'll drop to a boot prompt when they
> receive the break from the xyplex as it shuts down. Then the power will
> come back and all the Sun boxen, never having lost power, will be still
> sitting happily waiting for someone to come along and type "go". But if
> they're not UPSed, they'll autoboot, if they're set to.

Thats what I like about the Lightwave stuff - guaranteed not to send BREAK.
Unless you want to, that is.

Bill

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Bill Bradford
mrbill at mrbill.net
Austin, TX



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