[c-nsp] Console server

[Rob Lister]

On Thu, Dec 30 at 8:11:32 PM, Brent Paddon wrote:
> Jay,
>
> We use a bit of the OpenGear kit (http://opengear.com/) - very happy with
> it.

+1 for Opengear. Good functionality, especially since they now make
a Cisco Pinout version, so you can just use the existing Cisco DB9
adaptors rather than having to make/buy special cable / DB9 adapter
for the Opengear.

Has some very nice features such as two users being able to login to
the same console session at the same time and share it.

Also it has good logging of output from console to syslog / log file
etc, so if the device crashes completely or fails to boot etc then you
have a nice log file of what was received on the console when it died!


Rob