[SunHELP] Serial Output via Ethernet wire

[Stefan Molnar]

>From the sounds of it you want a serial console server.   If you really
want to use the cat5 cabling from the closet to your desk for a serial
line, you can do so.  Just hard patch things from one to another.  But
getting a console server is the best thing.   You can get a portmaster
2 (10 port in 2U of space) fairly cheep, from ebay or portmaters.com.
You can get others from an annex, lantronix, etc.

On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, 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
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