In the long term I think you would be better off buying a couple db9 to rj45 connectors. They will be far more flexible. I have seen routers with unusual wiring, the connectors are easy to reconfigure to whatever you need.
I have a server where I would need to connect, but I can't do it on the standard method due to the network settings, so I was guessing if it exists some service or daemon that could bind the SSH port to some address like for example server1.theservice.com or something in that way. Like localtunne...
what needs to be reset is a software configuration setting stored on the damn CF
even if the Alix board did have a reset switch, it would be ignorant o what's on the CF and just do a low level format at best, still requiring me to get a CF reader
@Zoredache BTW, I've had absolutely no problem with off-brand USB-serial devices, as long as they're using the PL2303 chipset (and you install the PL2303 driver before connecting the device the first time)
@TessellatingHeckler, or even simpler. Instead of booting a different OS, just give an option a switch/jumper that will perform a network boot. Allowing you to the firmware you want on a tftp server.
If anyone remembers the guy who was trying to RDP into his VMware server that I was complaining about, he now wants to upload a new VM into one of his existing VMs
If you say so. I already have an environment setup for tftp booting. It would be really easy, for me. I would boot my favorite linux rescue disk, image mount the cf and fix whatever was broken. Easy :P
the rest of us normal people go "oh no, where's a tftp for windows server ... where's a downloadable boot image from the maker ... which one of these mess of confusing codenames is a compatible image ... ok I've got all that, now it's not working. Now instead of a broken device, I have a broken device, broken tftp and an unknown device image."
ok, "where's a linux install, what's the password, which stupid packagemanager does this one have, where's the tftp config, is it working, how do I get this disk image over to it, where are the 'it's not working' logs"
that's an even longer chain of yak shaving again
if I have a broken router, I want to do things which fix my broken router, not things which are unrelated in the hope that they will get me to a state where I can fix the router. {“I know, I'll use regular expressions.” Now they have two problems. - jwz, etc.}
@TessellatingHeckler, If you say so. I have that whole linux + tftp + dhcp setup on my bootable USB drive though. I already have the tools ready for that. Therefor, it is very easy.
If this fly is in my office much longer, there will soon be holes in the walls. Keeps trying to land in my water bottle.
@hobodave So, when you configured the device's address to be on vlan 50, that means that only another device that's on vlan 50 can see it over layer 2 (and also needs to be on the same subnet).
customer requests from dumb-ass today: set IE Security Zone setting, mount a SQL Server CD in his VMware host OS, upload a VM image to one of his VM guests
untagged in vlan x = all traffic on the port will be classed in vlan x even though the traffic over the wire is not vlan tagged. tagged in x = network traffic which is tagged for with vlan x is allowed on this port excluded = network traffic which is tagged for vlan x is ignored on this port (HP Speak)
@hobodave Essentially, a device that's in only one vlan will get an untagged port on that vlan. A device that's on multiples like your pfsense box will get the port configured to allow it to tag packets into multiple vlans in the switch.
Management Port - Using the drop-down list, select the port that is connected to the network for management access. The selected 'Management Port' will be auto-configured to be an untagged member in 'Management VLAN' and the port will be excluded from previous untagged VLAN (if any).
I want to know if it is possible to run a virtualized OS over a datacenter service.
(i.e. to have a Windows Server at Amazon EC2 and two linux instances running on an installed virtualization engine like vmware...)
so you should only be able to manage that system via port 21, or port 22 with tagging. (unless you have a router setup, that is actually moving packets between vlans.
@TessellatingHeckler I'm sorry but we seem to have some severe issues communicating, and I'm sure it's my fault, but I can't help getting frustrated so I'm going to ignore your most recent questions.
@TessellatingHeckler, one of his earlier question was how was he managing the switch since the management vlan is 50. Only two ports should be able to access vlan50 given those screen shots.
@hobodave You're not thinking of VLANs like virtual cables of awesomeness yet. Every VLAN you tag onto a port is a virtual cable plugged into a virtual NIC that's plugged into that port.
I doubt those will work right now. Since you haven't mentioned setting up a interface on your router for vlan200 and you haven't tagged your router port for vlan200
making a port untagged says to the switch "take the traffic, expect it to have no vlan tag markings, and treat it as if it is in vlan x", so the phone traffic, which will have no vlan markings, gets into vlan 200 inside the switch
@hobodave, btw, aside from the confusion about configuration, how are you liking that netgate router? I am thinking about grabbing one to test that out.
I want to know if it is possible to run a virtualized OS over a datacenter service.
(i.e. to have a Windows Server at Amazon EC2 and two linux instances running on an installed virtualization engine like vmware...)
