[j-nsp] What do for a terminal server?

[Joe Freeman]

Actually, Cyclades (now Avocent) makes a dedicated console server as well...
Check out the ACS series...
http://www.avocent.com/web/en.nsf/Content/CycladesACS_Landing

They come in variants from 1 to 48 ports, offer out-of-band management via
on board ethernet, or pcmcia slot (think modem, gsm/edge card, et al). They
run a Linux distro and are extremely versatile.

One thing I like about them, especially in the use being discussed here, is
that they can log anything seen on a console port to a syslog file stored
locally ( or remotely) in onboard disk, or to a flash disk in one of the
PCMCIA slots. Helps a lot when you have a router misbehaving and errors
scroll by so fast you miss them.

Joe


> > I have used cyclades term servers with open source OS with lots of
> > success and flexibility.
> >
> > http://global.cyclades.com/products/2/ts_series
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: juniper-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net
> > [mailto:juniper-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Scott Morris
> > Sent: Monday, June 25, 2007 5:55 AM
> > To: 'Neal R'; juniper-nsp at puck.nether.net
> > Subject: Re: [j-nsp] What do for a terminal server?
> >
> > For all my Juniper lab stuff (and Cisco lab stuff), I just use a variety
> > of
> > Cisco equipment that can be found on the used market pretty cheap.
> >
> > Either a 2509/2511 for built in ports (end of sale I think, so used
> > equipment), or a 2600 or higher with an NM-16A or NM-32A module.
> >
> > You'll be able to access all your equipment just fine and it's really
> > simple
> > to find help/docs on configuration.
> >
> > There are other vendors as well, someone mentioned MRV (the old Xyplex
> > line
> > of terminal servers) which work very well.  I have a couple old 1640's
> > (40
> > port models) but they're a whole different beast to configure, so it all
> > depends on where your experience level is.
> >
> > HTH,
> >
> > Scott
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: juniper-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net
> > [mailto:juniper-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Neal R
> > Sent: Monday, June 25, 2007 12:40 AM
> > To: juniper-nsp at puck.nether.net
> > Subject: [j-nsp] What do for a terminal server?
> >
> >
> >  Ladies and gentlemen,
> >
> >     I've recently developed a burning desire to expunge Cisco products
> > from
> > our network and every single customer network that we maintain. I'm
> > awaiting
> > the shipment of a Juniper 4350, I've already got an Extreme switch for
> > training purposes, and today I started the process of moving from Cisco
> > Call
> > Manager Express to a Trixbox solution.
> >
> >    The one bit I'm having trouble with is the terminal server function.
> > We've got Cisco 2509/2511 all over the place and don't see a good
> > alternative to this in the market. I've asked the MikroTik forums if
> > they
> > might add a terminal server module to their appliance OS, I've asked the
> > Soekris mailing list if anyone is building terminal servers based on the
> > Net4801, and I'd like to hear from all of you on this point
> > - how do you do out of band management for clusters of Juniper routers?
> >
> >
> >
> > Neal
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