[SunHELP] Serial Output via Ethernet wire

[Will Yardley]

Stefan Molnar wrote:

> 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.

they're pretty expensive, but we use the digi etherlite console servers
on almost all of our remote machines, and they're pretty easy to setup /
use.  it comes with a utility some installation software.

our 32 port ones are 1300 or so, but the 8 port ones might be cheaper.

w

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