Re: [TCLUG:14044] serial consoles

[Chris McKinley <lamfada@lugh.net>]

I would prolly be interested in one of those, can you point me to a URL?

The equivalents would be, of course, a Cisco router (we use 2500s for Terminal
Servers) or multiprot serial cards.

-Chris 

On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, Eric M. Hopper wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 08:20:13AM -0600, Nate Carlson wrote:
> > 
> > Yeah, the Phoenix bios on some Intel server boards (the ones in VA
> > Boxes I know for sure) support serial console. But, the only time you
> > need BIOS support is if you want BIOS messages over the serial
> > wire.. otherwise, you just see from the time LILO boots the kernel.
> 
> 	There is a company I used to work for called Global Maintech.
> They make a product that you can view multiple serial consoles with.  It
> uses X, so you can view the all the serial consoles from home if you
> like.
> 
> 	The latest version of this product uses an ethernet based board
> that speaks TCP/IP, and has several serial connections on it to connect
> to the serial consoles.  You can set up a dedicated network (or use your
> existing one for a little less reliability) for these cards and connect
> them all to their box.  It's kind of neat.
> 
> 	Sadly, they've treated all their development trash, so they've
> all left.  The product is currently being maintained/developed by an MVS
> system administrator turned programmer and a couple of programmers
> who've been teaching school for the past 10 years.
> 
> 	But, the existence of that product is a good reason why you
> might want to forget about having a KVM switch and go for a BIOS that
> can work with the serial port instead.
> 
> Have fun (if at all possible),
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