[nycbug-talk] serial remote access hardware recommendations

[Jan Schaumann]

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...

Probably overkill for just one box, but I've been using one of these
Cyclades serial console appliances for a while to connect to all of my
serial ports and have so far managed to populate 44 of the 48 ports.

http://www.cyclades.com/products/2/ts_series

Of course the problem with such a device is that it's running the
Modified Linux Flavor of the Month(tm) and you can hardly do anything
about the security holes, but so far it's been working just fine.

The only thing that really irks me about these things is that they're so
overprices.  If you're on a budget, then you can actually knit your own
by using a whole bunch of these USB-serial adapters (I think Belkin
makes them)...

-Jan

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