[nycbug-talk] serial remote access hardware recommendations

[pete wright]

On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 18:15:16 -0500 (EST), Charles Sprickman
<spork at bway.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Mar 2005, pete wright wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 17:29:04 -0500 (EST), Dru <dlavigne6 at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> >>
> >> Any recommendations for serial remote access hardware for a FreeBSD 5.2
> >> box at a remote colo? They don't provide serial hardware and charge a
> >> service call when we can't get in over the network...
> >>
> >
> >
> > Hi Dru,
> >     There is a company that makes a pic card that you can put in a
> > box and it allows you to ssh to the card then from there get a secure
> > serial connection to the server.  Here's the link:
> >
> > http://www.realweasel.com/intro.html
> >
> > I too would be interested in hearing any other options, other than
> > having two boxes connected via serial cable...
> 
> Digi has a few tiny terminal servers that support SSH:
> 
> http://www.digi.com/products/externaldeviceservers/portserverts1mei.jsp
> 
> That's a 1-port model, there's also 2 and 4 port models that are very
> small.
> 

That's pretty awesome...I'm bookmarking this thing right now :)

-p


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