Re: Serial Terminal Servers

[Nico De Ranter <nico@sonycom.com>]

We use a number of Portmaster-2e's from Lucent.  Up to 30 serial ports
reachable through telnet (no ssh unfortunately). It's not realy cheap
however.  I'm also looking into the Consoleserver from Lightwave communications
they promised ssh support and in the near future also the possibility for
remote powermanagement (basicaly a powerplug with a network interface :-).
This solution is even more expensive unfortunately.  (www.lightwave.com)

Nico


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]
> 
> 
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