Re: remote management
> On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 05:31:57PM -0600, Matt Fair wrote:
> :I am managing my server remotely using ssh. If my network connection
> :goes down for some reason, I have no control over it, is there a way
> :where I could check to see if there is a network connection and then
> :restart the connection?
>
> best option is to recompile the kernel on the server to put the
> console out to serial port (is this default in debian kernels? if not
> what problems does it create, I always roll mine that way), then you
> can hang a modem off the serial port and even if the networking on the
> server breaks you can get in to try and fix it.
Would this be a dial-in connection to the computer to manage it? What I need is
to manage the computer remoteley all the way back to the lilo prompt. Are there
any how-to's to do this?
What other equipment would I need for this?
Would there be any way to encrypt the session?
Thanks
Matt
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