portmaster serial/terminal servers with FreeBSD ...

[Chris Pepper]

At 1:18 PM -0300 2004/07/27, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>Anyone have any warnings about these?  I'm thinking of picking one 
>up so that I can monitor the remote servers, especially through a 
>reboot, better ... looking at the PM-25 model (25 port through 
>fan-out cables) ... my understanding, on the FreeBSD side, is that I 
>just need to add -P to /boot.config, and it will probe the serial 
>port for a serial console ... anything else on a 4.x machine that 
>needs to be done?  Used to be something in the kernel, if I recall 
>correctly, but think that was removed ... ?

	We're very happy with the Cyclades ACS series (we get them 
with dual power & 48 ports); the older TS series should be cheaper. 
They run Linux & sshd, and can log all traffic on the port 
automatically (ours always keep the last 10240 characters).


						FWIW,


						Chris Pepper
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