From: Akshat Kumar <akumar@mail.nanosouffle.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] nvram on a diskless cpu server
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 15:10:03 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABwSpPAvDVZPj=ewroKe8b9sEe8QcO94H+3RJESke0=sOpVhoA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d9eddb44e2525392c0d594d1c429733d@coraid.com>
Well, I don't have a dedicated AoE for secure keys.
Alternatively, can I store the keys on a little USB
device? Does it require anything more than a change
to the INI (in this case PXE) file?
On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 3:04 PM, erik quanstrom
<quanstro@labs.coraid.com> wrote:
> On Sun Jul 10 17:56:42 EDT 2011, rminnich@gmail.com wrote:
>> Some time ago I modified the rtc driver so we could use '#r/nvram'
>> (oh, gosh, this was almost 10 years ago but ...) so that we could use
>> the CMOS to store this stuff. Maybe it's time for another look.
>
> vorsicht! there's a lot of magic stuff in the rtc. and where the magic
> bits are depends on your particular special bios. i think the problem
> is no one has pieced together 50-odd bytes from rtc - union(used bits).
>
> i know that some folks have a dedicated aoe network using seperate
> interfaces. if you have something like that and you think it's secure
> enough, it can be used to store nvram.
>
> - erik
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-10 22:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-10 21:49 Akshat Kumar
2011-07-10 21:55 ` ron minnich
2011-07-10 22:03 ` Akshat Kumar
[not found] ` <CAP6exYLGYwhUnJy6LAWVqs25X+Gj9UNO+eTT+rC-rNrB2C1eOA@mail.gmail.c>
2011-07-10 22:04 ` erik quanstrom
2011-07-10 22:10 ` Akshat Kumar [this message]
2011-07-10 22:13 ` ron minnich
2011-07-10 22:20 ` Akshat Kumar
2011-07-10 22:34 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2011-07-10 23:25 ` ron minnich
2011-07-11 7:19 ` Steve Simon
2011-07-11 9:28 ` Akshat Kumar
2011-07-11 9:43 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2011-07-11 10:59 ` hiro
[not found] ` <CABwSpPCSWxe_9Xa2BJw=umEbDKok7GATQ64erKqVoxTaQrBsVA@mail.gmail.c>
2011-07-11 14:54 ` erik quanstrom
[not found] ` <CABwSpPB3xm88pV5kDgKTTUYYJtgmiFqCi1Y57cLTp80W_BpwJw@mail.gmail.com>
2011-07-10 23:30 ` [9fans] Fwd: " Akshat Kumar
2011-07-10 23:45 ` ron minnich
2011-07-10 22:11 ` [9fans] " ron minnich
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