Greetings, On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 1:00 AM, [email protected] <[email protected]>wrote:
> @rajgopal > > Pardon me, but are you taking into consideration the existence of > > management ports (ILO, DRAC, RAS, IPMI and the such) on servers? > > > no .. QTCPServer starts listening to a port randomly and that port is > displayed on the server's info dialog > this is to be communicated to the client via other channel (phone, chat > etc) > and thus the connection is established. > the ports it randomly generates are usually 5 digit integers like 54341 > etc. > > Oh!. Sorry, I thought/misunderstood that you had a *real* server with only RS232 console access available to you. Every seen the pitiable IA64 Servers? sigh... poor installers... hours in the antartic waiting for a stupid 19200 connection in the age of gigabits... Sun's Non-x servers never sported a video card... > Aren't they out of the scope of allotted ports? > > An IPMI and the such is a full ethernet IP device with enormous power. Just my reNDu paisaa / kaasu Regards, Rajagopal _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
