[188071] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: remote serial console (IP to Serial)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mel Beckman)
Tue Mar 8 11:58:35 2016
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From: Mel Beckman <mel@beckman.org>
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2016 16:51:54 +0000
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Adafruit.com sells a USB to serial converter for $10 that works great (http=
s://www.adafruit.com/product/954). Plus you can operate multiple serial por=
ts this way.=20
-mel beckman
> On Mar 8, 2016, at 8:45 AM, Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> wrote:
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> Serial port on the PI is TTL, so you=92ll need some level shifters and/or
> ideally some opto-isolators or buffers to do a proper implementation.
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> Owen
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>> On Mar 8, 2016, at 08:32 , greg whynott <greg.whynott@gmail.com> wrote:
>>=20
>> Thanks to all who responded to me, quite the flood of suggestions and
>> options.
>>=20
>> Found a lot of 20 Digi CM32's on ebay for 35 dollars each, overkill but
>> can't beat the price, going to look into those to make sure they are st=
ill
>> able to get OS updates. There will be no firewall in front of this devi=
ce
>> so it should have one itself.
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>> I like the raspberry pi idea... Would ensure perpetual security updates
>> with the OS running on it, whereas I'm sure some of the vendors of
>> commercial console products EOL support at some point. The fact it runs
>> linux is inviting as we can add it to our monitoring systems.
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>> have a great day,
>> greg
>>=20
>>=20
>>=20
>> On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 10:33 AM, Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail=
.com
>>> wrote:
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>>> for singular serial .. there are many, do you want something that's
>>> "appliance" or are you willing to deploy 18 raspnberry-pi-like
>>> thingies?
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>>> 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.
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>>>> 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 mys=
elf
>>>> out. The requirement would be an Ethernet port, a serial port, and
>>> SSH.
>>>>=20
>>>>=20
>>>> Anyone have any recommendations on something like this?
>>>>=20
>>>> thanks much,
>>>> greg
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