Re: [SAGE] console server (Raritan or ???)

[Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>]

At 1:23 AM -0800 2004/01/02, Robert Hajime Lanning wrote:

>  Ya, that's why I like sticking one of these things in my servers:
>  http://www.realweasel.com/

	For PC servers with expansion cards, that's okay.  For old 
laptops re-purposed as servers when they get too old to use Microsoft 
OSes, or for Sun hardware, unfortunately that doesn't help so much.

	For what little PC hardware I have that will take expansion 
cards, I made sure to buy equipment that would fully support serial 
ports as well as typical PC-style KVM.

>  It is $350 per machine, but alot easier to budget for a home server room.

	I've been looking for something that I would hope is a lot less 
expensive than that.  One re-purposed old laptop (so far), an ancient 
Sun SPARC 4 clone (not UltraSPARC), four UltraSPARC 10 clones, and a 
monster Intel OEM 4-way PPro server with twelve disks (as the main 
fileserver), adds up to a fair number of machines.  Sigh....

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Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be>

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