[113964] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: integrated KVMoIP and serial console terminal server
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Luke S Crawford)
Fri Apr 24 14:32:49 2009
To: Joe Abley <jabley@hopcount.ca>
From: Luke S Crawford <lsc@prgmr.com>
Date: 24 Apr 2009 14:33:18 -0400
In-Reply-To: <1480BA76-4D32-4F82-8C45-9DBF3D4CDB5F@hopcount.ca>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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Joe Abley <jabley@hopcount.ca> writes:
> What is everybody's favourite combination rack-mount VGA/USB KVM-over-
> IP and serial console concentrator in 2009?
>
> I'm looking for something that will accommodate 8 or so 9600bps serial
> devices and about 12 VGA/USB devices, all reachable over IP via sane
> means (ssh, https, etc). Being able to trunk everything through cat5E/
> RJ45 plant is not necessary; in this application everything is in the
> same cabinet.
I can't speak to the KVM over IP (for *NIX, they are obviously
inferior to serial) but I do have some suggestions for the serial end.
Personally, I use an opengear cm4148; it seems to work fairly well.
If I only needed 8 ports, I'd still be using my solution from 2005, which
was an 8 port rocketport serial card in a FreeBSD box. I only moved to
the opengear because I need many more ports
I like both the opengear and the freebsd box because I can use ssh auth,
I can log, and I can lock down each user so that a given private key can
only view a certain port.
