[H-GEN] Slowlaris and Serial Consoles

[Christopher Biggs]

David Shackleton <dshackle at pineapple.goldenglow.com.au> moved upon the face of the 'Net and spake thusly:

> On 3 Mar 1998, Christopher Biggs wrote:
> > Is there any way to disable the "Serial-Line-Break-Means-Halt-The-System",
> > ahem, "feature" of slowlaris?
> 
> I have been trying to recall where I read it (perhaps the Sun Hardware
> FAQ) that described a fairly simple modification to your serial line to
> buffer the break signal.
> 
> Of course, that makes it hard if you DO then need the break signal.
> 
> Really though, I'm wondering why you'd be powering off a terminal server
> anyway....?  All our SPARC's never have their DT console switched off, and
> the 'ok' prompt comes in handy for probing scsi devices among other
> things.

One of our support guys came to me with this problem...

Some customer is running our multiport boards (and some of our
terminal servers) to concentrate the consoles of a bunch of servers to
one machine.

If that machine should be powered off, all the servers hang.

I assume they want to guard against accidental or unavoidable
powerdown of the console machine.

*My* answer would be "well don't do that then!"...

Chris.

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