[114570] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Managing your network devices via console
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (=?utf-8?Q?Bj=C3=B8rn_Mork?=)
Fri May 15 04:04:53 2009
From: =?utf-8?Q?Bj=C3=B8rn_Mork?= <bjorn@mork.no>
To: Mehmet Akcin <mehmet@akcin.net>
Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 10:04:37 +0200
In-Reply-To: <2909d6d90905141929n746c29c9v88b337ee4ce981c1@mail.gmail.com>
(Mehmet Akcin's message of "Thu, 14 May 2009 19:29:52 -0700")
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Mehmet Akcin <mehmet@akcin.net> writes:
> It's always cool to have console access to routers/switches and
> nowadays they are going from RS-232 to RJ-45 as a standart. I have got
> Avocent DSR 2035 which is a KVM+Serial console (all in one).. but
> while I was able to have it work against servers via KVM or/and Serial
> , I was unable to make it work properly against any network device. I
> am wondering if anyone had experience on DSR or similar boxes to
> configure them against network devices console ports.
I stumbled across these, which look like decent alternatives to getting
a 2511 from eBay: http://www.perle.com/products/Terminal-Server.shtml
The 48-port 1U terminal server with redundant power looks particularily
nice.
I've no experience with Perle, though. Anyone else?
Bj=C3=B8rn
