This may have been covered in another post, and if so I apologize for posting it again.

I was at the IPIP Seminar in Denver yesterday and now I have some questions. I saw a demo where a ping was set up to a box and then using VPro Technology the nick was disabled remotely and the ping turned into destination unreachables. The nick was re-enabled and the pings resumed. This has led to several questions.

1) The must be underlying technology that allows VPro to continue to communicate with a remote device even if the ethernet card is disabled. I would have liked to the see the switch because I suspect that the interface is still up, even though the nick is down (or disabled) Can someone elaborate more on this?

2) Next would be security implications. If you can turn it off and back on... so can someone else. What technology keeps a malicious individual from disabling every nick in your organization, or powering off all your clients and servers, etc. I would really like some details on this aspect of VPro Technology.

1. vPro technology allows a remote administrator to manage a computer via a OOB (out of band) network interface that is not visible to the host operating system. This OOB interface is directly connected to the AMT firmware running on the ME in the northbridge.

2. Others cannot remotely manage the computer because they do not know the remote management username/password. vPro technology uses HTTP Digest (hashed username and password style authentication) o HTTP Negotiate (based on Kerberos technology) to authenticae the administrator trying to manage the vPro elements, such as enable/disable the NIC in ths case.

Hope this helps.

Purushottam Goel

Security Architect for AMT and other vPro technologies

How can I

HP has BTO/CTO with 8gb capable NBs with Intel PM965 Mobile with vPro technolgy (links below).

http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/12731_na/12731_na.HTML

http://h71016.www7.hp.com/MiddleFrame.asp?page=config&ProductLineId=539&FamilyId=2622&BaseId=25864&oi=E9CED&BEID=19701&SBLID=S_ADMIN

But Intel claims they do not support 8gb with that Chipset.

Boy, am I confused . Someone please clarify. HELP ???!!!!