Syslinux - Mar 2009 - netconsole for pxelinux

Hi,

I'm in the position that a network console would occasionally be very
useful for me to control pxelinux.  Has the possibility of adding it
(next to VGA and serial) been ever discussed?  I understand that it
may sound somewhat contorted, but it could also serve instead of a
TFTP PUT for extracting hardware info, for example...

How hard would it be to add (considering gPXE as well)?
-- 
Cheers,
Feri.

Ferenc Wagner wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm in the position that a network console would occasionally be very
> useful for me to control pxelinux.  Has the possibility of adding it
> (next to VGA and serial) been ever discussed?  I understand that it
> may sound somewhat contorted, but it could also serve instead of a
> TFTP PUT for extracting hardware info, for example...
> 
> How hard would it be to add (considering gPXE as well)?
If done over a UDP-based protocol, not very hard.  I mostly haven't done 
so due to lack of requests.  Keep in mind that Linux' netconsole 
protocol doesn't work -- it's unidirectional only.  In order to use a 
TCP-based protocol, it would have to be done on top of gPXE.

	-hpa