netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/2] netfilter: xtables: inclusion of xt

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Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.2.01.1004281701220.9518@obet.zrqbmnf.qr>
Date:	Wed, 28 Apr 2010 17:03:00 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ozas.de>
To:	John Haxby <john.haxby@...cle.com>
cc:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>,
	Netfilter Developer Mailing List 
	<netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Netdev List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] netfilter: xtables: inclusion of xt_SYSRQ


On Wednesday 2010-04-28 16:54, John Haxby wrote:
>
> use-case I see -- the one I see is where the sys admins used to have a "crash
> trolley" which was a console and PS/2 keyboard which they could plug into a
> machine to get some information, but as many rack machines no longer have
> anything PS/2 and USB hot plug is unlikely to work on a sick machine

Oh I can tell you stories... sometimes it's so dead in the water that
the console unblanking would not work any more, rendering even any PS/2
useless. Stupid southbridge chipsets blowing up DMA :-)
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