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amtterm under Debian

I have packaged Gerd Hoffmann's (amtterm) for Debian (amtterm and gamt)

Serial-over-lan (sol) client for Intel AMT

 AMT (included in Intel vPro and Centrino Pro) provides out-of-band (OOB)
 management for Desktops and Laptops, using an agent integrated in the
 network adapter and in the motherboard.
 
 Serial-over-lan provides a (secure) way to connect a remote computer, through
 a pseudo serial interface.
 
 This package provide 2 terminals (amtterm and gamt) to connect to that pseudo
 serial interface from a remote computer. amttool is a perl script to gather
 informations about and remotely control AMT managed computers.

gamt

Here's a snapshot of gamt in action... looks like a regular terminal... It is not !

This is Serial-over-Lan

DO note that you can access this remote console even if :

• System is in 'runlevel 1'
• ssh daemon has crashed (I know, it never happends)
• You shot in your feet with iptables ( -P DROP ?? ; I know, you wouldn't do it)
• The computer is powerd-off (true, reliable wake-on-lan ; even if you have a hard disk password)

The above sample as realised on a "target" computer, which AMT ME Engine was configured, in SMB (small business mode), then the followin line as added to /etc/inittab :

T0:123:respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyS0 115200 vt100-nav

amttool

### AMT info on machine '127.0.0.1' ###
AMT version:  2.5.0
Hostname:     solid.paris.klabs.be
Powerstate:   S0
Remote Control Capabilities:
    IanaOemNumber                   0
    OemDefinedCapabilities          IDER SOL BiosSetup 
    SpecialCommandsSupported        PXE-boot HD-boot cd-boot 
    SystemCapabilitiesSupported     powercycle powerdown powerup reset 
    SystemFirmwareCapabilities      0

Network Interface 0:
    DhcpEnabled                     true
    HardwareAddressDescription      Wired0
    InterfaceMode                   SHARED_MAC_ADDRESS
    LinkPolicy                      31
    MACAddress                      00-1a-6b-00-00-00
        DefaultGatewayAddress       192.168.0.1
        LocalAddress                192.168.0.202
        PrimaryDnsAddress           192.168.0.33
        SecondaryDnsAddress         0.0.0.0
        SubnetMask                  255.255.255.0
Network Interface 1:
    DhcpEnabled                     true
    HardwareAddressDescription      Wireless1
    InterfaceMode                   SHARED_MAC_ADDRESS
    LinkPolicy                      0
    MACAddress                      00-13-e8-00-00-00
        DefaultGatewayAddress       0.0.0.0
        LocalAddress                0.0.0.0
        PrimaryDnsAddress           0.0.0.0
        SecondaryDnsAddress         0.0.0.0
        SubnetMask                  0.0.0.0