@benjojo which system / ipmi ?

@benjojo I haven't had to use our 'remote KVM/KVM over IP' systems much from genuinely remote, so now I wonder how they cope with non-local-network bandwidth and latency and etc. (A mix of mostly Supermicro and some Dells; we have mostly Dells but mostly don't pay the KVM over IP tax for them.)

I am just thankful that 'KVM over IP with HTML(5)' is a thing now and I am not wrestling with terrible Java applets any more. Although 'remote ISO image from my browser' would be nice.

@benjojo That is more modern than all of our HTML5 KVM over IP things, which only let you use things like SMB (from the BMC itself) to mount an ISO image. Setting up a SMB ISO server just for our BMCs was always too much work for me.

I am honestly impressed with how hard MegaRAC's JS code is working. Maybe it makes the BMC end much easier to do the USB stuff in your web browser.

(Maybe they do it by compiling some USB stack in C or whatever to WASM. That would be vaguely sane-adjacent.)

@benjojo @cks …i stuffed a uSD card into the BMC in our box to minimise risk of ever needing to do ISO-over-KVM stuff, because its always a latency nightmare

@erincandescent @benjojo @cks HPE iLO has a mode where you can enter the URL of the iso and then the BMC directly fetches from that (http range requests).

It also has the browser option, but the url version is much snappier imo.

@cks @benjojo I installed a 500ms-away dedicated server over the remote KVM with ISO loaded through my browser.

It is very slow but it works (if you don't lose packets).

@benjojo Sadly this all came after the bits of IPMI that actually work were standardized. The bits added by like HP and Dell are a flaming shit show of vendor half assing.