[Gllug] Changing machine's IP address

Paul Brazier pbrazier at cosmos-uk.co.uk
Fri Nov 2 12:17:22 UTC 2001


> >(It would be embarrassing to get home only to find we couldn't access
> >the server remotely - do these places have terminals that 
> you can use to
> >double check your setup is OK while you're there?)
> 
> In theory, our hosting centre (Colt) are meant to have a screen and
> keyboard in each server room, but in reality, you're better of taking
> a laptop along with you. Just plug it into the serial port of your
> box (you *have* got it set up to support a serial console, haven't
> you?)

Not sure what this means exactly, we plugged a monitor and keyboard
directly to it to get it going, then did all access over ethernet
afterwards.

Other major problem is we don't have a laptop :-(


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