> 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? Yup. It's just a PC with some serial cards with cables running to about 4 machines. We just use 'cu' to connect. > 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? I really don't know what kind of cards they are. It was all setup before I got here. Gabe -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gabe Turner | X-President, UNIX Systems Administrator, | Assoc. for Computing Machinery U of M Supercomputing Institute for | University of Minnesohta Digital Simulation and Advanced Computation | dopp at acm.cs.umn.edu "I watch bad movies in my own home because I'm insane. I've been driven mad by them, and like heroin, I keep wanting more, even though it's collapsing my heart." - Mike Nelson, MST3k -------------------------------------------------------------------------------