[luau] Airgapped networks?

Jeff Mings jeffm at lava.net
Thu Jul 25 18:03:01 PDT 2002


Airgapped?  I'm curious - could you please explain this?

-Jeff



Brian Chee wrote:

>5.    Lastly, most motherboards do not have the capability of using a serial
>port as a true console device.  (ala Sun sparcs) and thusly you don't get a
>console until the linux/bsd/etc is up and running.  Some of the Intel
>motherboards do have a true serial console...the cool part about that is
>that you can actually connect a terminal/console server (like the Lantronix
>SSH terminal servers) to the console.  I've created a airgapped network
>(separate from the world) just for console devices (Networld+Interop calls
>it "Access Ether") so that even if I'm getting dos'ed I can get into the
>console and deal with it. I've done some of my servers and almost all of my
>switches.  That way I can get into a serial console without having to walk
>all over my building....even better when you have to deal with a campus.
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>/brian chee
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