[Freedombox-discuss] Without software collusion

Rick Hodgin foxmuldrster at yahoo.com
Thu Jun 28 20:37:20 UTC 2012


It's Intel's word usage:

http://communities.intel.com/servlet/JiveServlet/downloadBody/1754-102-10-22193/Configuration%20Guide%20for%20Microsoft%20ConfigMgr%20SP2%20Out%20of%20Band%20Management.pdf

Best regards,
Rick C. Hodgin

--- On Thu, 6/28/12, Tim Schmidt <timschmidt at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Tim Schmidt <timschmidt at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Without software collusion
> To: "Rick Hodgin" <foxmuldrster at yahoo.com>
> Cc: freedombox-discuss at lists.alioth.debian.org, freebirds at hushmail.com
> Date: Thursday, June 28, 2012, 4:16 PM
> On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 4:13 PM, Rick
> Hodgin <foxmuldrster at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> > However, it is out-of-band because the sender and
> receiver are operating on their own.
> 
> No, they're not.  There are ethernet switches, wireless
> access points,
> or other networking equipment involved - each fully capable
> computers
> in their own right.
> 
> 'Out of band' is entirely inappropriate language for what's
> happening here.
> 
> They're just two ethernet devices, speaking ethernet frames
> to each
> other.  Like normal.
> 
> The fact that the CPU of one of the machines isn't aware of
> the
> network communications means nothing.  It's still going
> on, still
> observable by any other ethernet device on the local
> network.
> 
> --tim
> 



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