Joseph S. D. Yao wrote: >> I also intend to do some "out-of-band" mgmt with a dialin >> modem on the serial console of the two sun boxes (yes, yes, >> wardialers I know). However, this is what the customer wants, >> and I have no say-so, so I need to simply get it set up. > >Can you at least get them to use a dial-back modem? Or even strong >authentication at the dial-in terminal server? Sounds like there's no terminal server there, just dialin on the serial console. :( Warning: workstations often have incredibly lame serial consoles. I don't know about the particular sun boxes you're planning to use but I've had $40,000 screaming hot workstations barely able to handle serial I/O at 38.8k. I've been pondering the secure remote management thing for a while and was trying to come up with decent solutions that are dirt cheap. Haven't tried this, but does anyone see a flaw with: - have a log-in that drops you right into PPP using CHAP - run ip_filt on the workstation to filter access via the PPP interface - let only SSH in over PPP (or whatever other services are OK) mjr. -- Marcus J. Ranum, CEO, Network Flight Recorder, Inc. work - http://www.nfr.net home - http://www.clark.net/pub/mjr
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