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> but I don't see any mention of the server itself. I mean how else does any remote management solution work? This is no different than IPMI?

• yjftsjthsd-h 2y ago
  You could have the machine act as a client and reach out to a management server. If you wanted to get really fancy you could maybe even add a DHCP option to advertise the local management server for autoconfiguration. I'm not convinced that would actually be much more secure, but it is a thing you could do.
  • kllrnohj 2y ago
    I'm not sure how you'd actually pull that off. Are you configuring AMT with such settings? Don't you then end up with 2 IPs per MAC? Or is AMT given its own MAC? Seems messy regardless. Just having it be a passive server is much simpler as it never needs to care how the packets got routed to it, it just responds in kind
    • yjftsjthsd-h 2y ago
      To be quite clear, I don't believe anyone has implemented it like this, I was just spitballing theoretical possibilities. And yes, you're right, you'd probably need to make the ethernet port present 2 MACs so the management system can have its own independent network stack, unless I've forgotten some awful trick to get around that (which is possible; I can't quite remember how single-port servers host their LoM interfaces).