[113971] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: integrated KVMoIP and serial console terminal server
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Frank Bulk)
Fri Apr 24 17:25:29 2009
From: "Frank Bulk" <frnkblk@iname.com>
To: "'Luke S Crawford'" <lsc@prgmr.com>,
"Joe Abley" <jabley@hopcount.ca>
In-Reply-To: <m3r5zhuck1.fsf@luke.xen.prgmr.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:22:03 -0500
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Reply-To: frnkblk@iname.com
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
The OpenGear (based on their online demo) has much better configuration GUI
than the WTI, hands down.
Every time I make a change on the WTI, it has to reboot itself. =(
Frank
-----Original Message-----
From: Luke S Crawford [mailto:lsc@prgmr.com]
Sent: Friday, April 24, 2009 1:33 PM
To: Joe Abley
Cc: NANOG list
Subject: Re: integrated KVMoIP and serial console terminal server
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.
