[c-nsp] out-of-band management - modems?

[Colin McNamara]

I am a huge fan of cylades products for locations where you have
multiple devices. When you don't have that luxury, nothing beats a modem
connected to your console.


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Colin McNamara
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On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 13:21 -0500, Furnish, Trever G wrote:
> This is probably a repeatedly asked question, even if not a frequently
> asked question.
> 
> What is everyone doing for out-of-band management of WAN routers that
> don't have redundant data connections (or do)?  Modems?  Something else?
> I would appreciate suggestions for specific modems and/or methods.
> 
> We currently use Courier v.Everything modems and pots lines connected to
> the console ports of the routers, but reliability of the OOB connection
> is not very good, and it's a struggle to keep the remote site phone
> lines connected, since dial-up POTS lines seem to be something phone
> system admins these days just can't be convinced to keep working and the
> modems themselves frequently don't negotiate correctly.
> 
> I am about to order more modems and phone lines, so if your experiences
> would be most appreciated.
>  
> --
> Trever Furnish, tgfurnish at herffjones.com
> 
> PS: I've also set aside some time to script up some method to
> periodically verify that each site's modem is still connected and
> working.  Any suggestions there on what tool to use?  At the moment
> it'll probably be tip or kermit or minicom on Linux.
> 
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