I have freenas mini and I want to connect to DB9 port of it from my mac laptop. In Mac laptop I only have RJ45 and USB port. Is there a way I can connect both? which cable should I buy? I just want to learn and play using serial communication. Any help is appreciated
Why? What do you hope to accomplish that way? You'd use a USB-Serial converter to make the connection, but I really doubt you'd be able to do anything useful with it (other than a serial console, but you can accomplish that more easily over the LAN without needing any extra hardware).
There's the web interface with the Java client, and there's also serial over LAN (which gives you the effect of a serial console, but without a serial cable). I know there's been a thread or two here about Serial over LAN, but I don't have the links handy.
It's seems 'console redirection' is a additional H/W in FreeNAS mini which enables to forward the VGA/Mouse/Keyboard.. Appreciate if I can get more details about it
And SOL (Serial Over LAN) , I am not sure how it works.. appreciate any link/url to which I can read to understand more about it.
To have IPMI work without issues you will need to have the latest BMC firmware - version 00.35.00 found here if you don't have it already. The mobo manual is at that link also, but it won't help you much with your current questions, though it's good to have.
Oh yes, I'd forgotten about that for the SOL - it works and I used it earlier.
I just dropped back to the however-crippled Asrock IPMI with the new BMC firmware as at least the KVM worked fine (for me anyway...) and I used it extensively in my recent memory and temperature testing exercises.
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