[Gllug] Sun hardware/firewall memory

[Tethys]

Ben Fitzgerald writes:

>We seem to be focussing this discussion down to headless bios level
>access so I assume you find this very important.

Very. All of the important boxen I have to look after are headless, and
racked up mostly several miles away.

>I regularly enjoy logging into SUN boxes over ssh to reset the ALOM
>interface (which has hung and lost it's IP address!). That said ALOM
>is pretty reliable IMHO.

ALOM was a mistake IMHO. The earlier LOM gave everything that was needed,
and ALOM just adds extra complexity and hence more things to go wrong
without giving appropriate benefits.

Tet
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