[188065] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: remote serial console (IP to Serial)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Morrow)
Tue Mar 8 10:43:18 2016
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Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2016 10:35:22 -0500
From: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
To: greg whynott <greg.whynott@gmail.com>
Cc: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
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also, serial? or usb? (see previous cisco usb console port discussion)
On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 10:33 AM, Christopher Morrow
<morrowc.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
> for singular serial .. there are many, do you want something that's
> "appliance" or are you willing to deploy 18 raspnberry-pi-like
> thingies?
>
> On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 10:30 AM, greg whynott <greg.whynott@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Recently I have taking over the responsibility of managing about 18 remote
>> routers and firewalls. None of these have a console port for 'out of
>> band' access accessible today.
>>
>> Most sites has available IPs between the ISP and us (typically a /29) or a
>> backup DSL connection available for use. I'd like to purchase a IP to
>> Serial port device I can use for each location in the event I lock myself
>> out. The requirement would be an Ethernet port, a serial port, and SSH.
>>
>>
>> Anyone have any recommendations on something like this?
>>
>> thanks much,
>> greg
