For what it's worth, the "right" way to handle this is NCSI, which allows a management interface to piggyback on the host's NIC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

For what it's worth, the "right" way to handle this is NCSI, which allows a management interface to piggyback on the host's NIC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NC-SI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NC-SI Unfortunately, support for NCSI can't be added to most motherboards; it requires the NIC to support it.