In article <59118.64.62.206.10.1210112636.squirrel at ruckus.brouhaha.com>,
"Eric Smith" <eric at brouhaha.com> writes:
Richard wrote:
I'd expect the box to initiate a telnet
session to the ethernet side
A telnet session to where?
It would be like a terminal server. When you type "telnet" at a unix
or DOS prompt, it asks you where you what host to which you want to
connect. I don't see this as any different.
How does the box get its IP address?
How does any box on an ethernet network get its IP address? Nothing
different here. If the box needs some sort of configuration, you'd do
that through the terminal.
All the other questions are answered similarly; what's being proposed
here is not new -- terminal servers have been doing this for 20+ years
at this point.
Obviously all these questions can be answered, but
it's not clear
how to answer them such that the product "just works". In fact,
it seems to me like it's impossible to meet the "just works"
objective.
There's always someone who will say it doesn't "just work". If you
want to be super-anal about it you can find fault with any product,
even something as simple as a toothpick.
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