return2ozma@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 hours agoThousands of servers can be backdoored by exploiting buggy motherboard controllersarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up161arrow-down11
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minus-squareik5pvx@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·11 hours agoYou can mount an ISO image through the BMC and boot the server from there. A serial port would be too slow. The management ethernet is supposed to be on a separate network not exposed on the same network as the rest.
minus-squaretal@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 hours ago You can mount an ISO image through the BMC and boot the server from there. I mean, you can typically do a TFTP boot on the systems that I’ve seen that have serial-capable BIOS setups. considers Heck, I think that all of my modern personal non-serial-port-BIOS systems can do that, even.
You can mount an ISO image through the BMC and boot the server from there. A serial port would be too slow. The management ethernet is supposed to be on a separate network not exposed on the same network as the rest.
I mean, you can typically do a TFTP boot on the systems that I’ve seen that have serial-capable BIOS setups.
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Heck, I think that all of my modern personal non-serial-port-BIOS systems can do that, even.