[rescue] Serial Output via Ethernet wire

[Bill Bradford]

On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 09:31:55AM -0800, Dunbar, Brian wrote:
> Serial Output via Ethernet wire
> I have a small collection of Sun machines in a closet.  I'd like to access
> their serial ports from my desk.  I have an unused Ethernet cable run
> between the two.
> What's the best way (Is there a way?) to pipe the output from the various
> serial ports on the sun computers via the Ethernet run to my desk?
> (fwiw, my previous solution to this was to have a conduit running from the
> server space to my workstation in the next office and a real long serial
> cable.  I've been moved.)
> Brian Dunbar

Get an old Portmaster terminal server, and hook it up as a console server.

I'm using one of these for the SunHELP machines @ colo:

http://www.lightwavecom.com/server_management/console800.html

Very nice, but VERY expensive.

Bill

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Bill Bradford
mrbill at mrbill.net
Austin, TX