[c-nsp] Console server

[Keegan Holley]

Not sure what ur price range is but the Cyclades acs servers are pretty reliable.  I've also used 2610's with the asynchronous card as others have suggested.  I've seen some even use Linux machines with extra serial ports installed and getty.

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On Dec 30, 2010, at 4:13 PM, Rob Lister <rob.lister at netsumo.com> wrote:

> 
> 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
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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