[SunHELP] Serial Output via Ethernet wire

Stefan Molnar sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Tue Nov 13 11:17:39 CST 2001


Old portmasters a pm2e is about $400 or cheeper.

On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Will Yardley wrote:

> 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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