On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 10:52:52AM -0800, Bulger, Tim wrote:
> In an effort to do a 'poor man's out of band management', I would like to
> make long runs of cable from the console ports of various routers to a
> centralized location to connect to a terminal server. Anyone have any idea
> what the maximum length would be for such a cable?
That's not "poor man's OOB" that's just good practice!
I've seen 100m (300') working on good Cat5 - as it's asynchronous there's
probably no theoretical maximum limit.
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Ryan O'Connell - CCIE #8174
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