BSDCan2018 - 1.54
BSDCan 2018
The Technical BSD Conference
| Speakers | |
|---|---|
|
Kurt Mosiejczuk |
| Schedule | |
|---|---|
| Day | Talks #2 - 9 June - 2018-06-09 |
| Room | DMS 1120 |
| Start time | 13:30 |
| Duration | 01:00 |
| Info | |
| ID | 982 |
| Event type | Lecture |
| Track | System Administration |
| Language used for presentation | English |
Making your own console server using OpenBSD
Using only base... and serial hardware
Serial lines as consoles are still with us, since a serial port can be used for communication even when all else has failed on the system. I built my own based on an off-hand comment by someone on the OpenBSD lists. I'll walk through how and why I did it along with the history and improvements in my solution.
The talk will walk through my implementation choices and their good points, bad points, and points I shouldn't admit to in public. At the end of this talk, attendees should have a good sense of the issues around building their own console server and be able to avoid some of the pitfalls I came across.
Points of discussion:
- Choosing hardware: Qualities and trade-offs
- Advantages to using software in base
- Driver Issues and other bumps along the way
- How the console server has changed over the years
- Advantages over IPMI, iLOM, and others
- Features you may want
- Problems others have run across
- What I'd do differently