On Mon, 9 Dec 2019 14:45:30 -0800, Maciej Żenczykowski wrote: > Example use cases might be: > - a port being stolen by the nic for remote serial console, remote > power management or some other sort of debugging functionality > (crash collection, gdb, direct access to some other microcontroller > on the nic or motherboard, remote management of the nic itself). This use case makes me a little uncomfortable. Could you elaborate what protocols and products are in need of this functionality? Why can't the NIC just get its own IP like it usually does with NCSI?