Re: Serial Terminal Servers

[lindsey@acm.org (Mark R. Lindsey)]

Nico said:
: 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.  

You can usually get a PM2E used through MSI Communications (msic.com)
for under $1000. 

: 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 :-).

APC also sells a remotely-manageable power-distribution unit, in the
so-called `masterswitch' series. Combining this into a terminal
server does sound interesting, though a bit odd.