Re: Serial Terminal Servers

[Bryan Stansell <bryan@conserver.com>]

Well, since we're going here, I'll plug the web pages again:

http://www.conserver.com/ (conserver software)

http://www.conserver.com/consoles/ (zonker's terminal server/serial knowledge)

http://www.conserver.com/consoles/breakoff.html (BREAK testing)

Zonker's pages have a wealth of terminal server info.  There are links
to other good sites as well.  We haven't tested many local serial port
products (we're trying to), but everything we've seen and heard about
send a BREAK signal when power-cycled.  If you don't have Sun equipment,
no problem, but it's something to think about.

Hope this helps (at least some).  A lot of this info is hard to get
(because it's not really talked about).  As we receive and verify the
information, we're trying to publish it on these web pages.

Good luck.

Bryan

On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 01:52:44PM -0500, Lance A. Brown wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> The mention of conserver in the NetApp vs. EMC thread reminded me 
> that I'm supposed to be looking at serial port terminal server 
> solutions.
> 
> My preference is to hang a bunch of serial ports off a UNIX system 
> and use conserver to manage them vs. some kind of standalone 
> network-attached terminal server gadget.
> 
> What products are folks using to do this?  We need to collect serial 
> consoles from some NetApps, a few Compaq Alpha systems, and other 
> assorted equipment.
> 
> --[Lance]
>