[rescue] 7x24-L.O. management with IPMI by Intel et al

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Tuesday, February 26, 2002 at 10:49:12 (-0500), George Adkins wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [rescue] Why .* sucks (was Re: FDDI card)
>
> Well, you DO have to admit that as creepy as it it, the Lights-Out management 
> boards do have at least a *couple* of cool features...  Such as being able to 
> turn the machine off and on remotely...

Oh, don't get me wrong -- I'd be in server management heaven if I had
full IPMI support in all the free operating systems.

Like I said, I do have a copy of the specs, but I don't have a client
able to pay me to develop said support, and I can't legally redistribute
copies of the spec, and they're supposed to be secret, and so even if I
do develop software for it then I probably won't be able to give it away
without paying Intel et al and "getting legal" with the spec.  I alone
cannot take on the combined legal might of Intel, HP, NEC, and Dell.  I
suspect that until and unless they decide to make the specifications
freely available there will be no full IPMI support in any free OS.

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								Greg A. Woods

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