I did this. I used a 32 port RocketPort PCI card. It works great, except the ports are all RJ-45, and nearly everything you connect it to requires a custom cable. The 32 port card was $1200-$1400. You might just be better off buying one of those little rackmount boxes that do the same thing. Of course, it's always nice to have the extra machine around for monitoring (since you have 32 serial ports, you can connect a modem to one for paging if your network dies). > -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Hicks [mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu] > Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 6:28 PM > To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > Subject: [TCLUG] Terminal servers (Re: cool. high uptime.) > > > dopp at acm.cs.umn.edu wrote: > > > > scud:gabe {85} uptime > > 3:45PM up 526 days, 1:13, 4 users, load averages: 0.33, > 0.14, 0.10 > > > > It's an OpenBSD machine we use as a terminal server, but > that's still a > > helluva uptime :) > > Do you mean `terminal server' in the sense of connecting the > serial ports > of various servers up to one box so that you can control > their consoles? > I've been considering setting up something like that for where I work, > since we have a bunch of systems that really shouldn't need to have > monitors, keyboards, and mice connected to them. If they > were all PCs, > I'd just get a KVM switch, but we have a mix of PCs and Suns > (and, coming > soon, an HP/UX box). > > Have many people set things up like this? Does it work very > well? What's > some good (and hopefully relatively inexpensive) hardware for the job? > > -- > _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ "My name is Linus > / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ Torvalds. You killed my > \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) process. Prepare to die." > [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ] _______________________________________________ tclug-list mailing list tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list