Using IPMI Serial-over-LAN for server consoles
I’ve been trying to learn linux networking and virtualisation using a donated server in a remote lab. The server didn’t have an IP-KVM attached but it did have a working IPMI connection. Not that I’d need it of course; I was experimenting with network settings whilst ssh’d into a server that was four and a half thousand miles away. What’s the worst that could happen? Of course the inevitable happened and I haplessly disabled my eth0 interface. I was locked…