[188118] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: remote serial console (IP to Serial)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Wed Mar 9 13:45:19 2016
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <20160309053642.GB2304@geeks.org>
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2016 10:44:13 -0800
To: Doug McIntyre <merlyn@geeks.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
If you're going to go that route, a PI is a much cheaper moboard to build on=
. Also consider the Pine64 (cheaper and more powerful than the PI)=20
> On Mar 8, 2016, at 21:36, Doug McIntyre <merlyn@geeks.org> wrote:
>=20
>> On Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 10:45:30AM -0900, Royce Williams wrote:
>>> On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 10:21 AM, Hugo Slabbert <hugo@slabnet.com> wrote:=
>>> I'm surprised no one's mentioned freetserv[1] yet. I haven't used them s=
o
>>> don't consider this an endorsement, but on the surface it looks to be a
>>> good balance of "open / DIY" and "supportable".
> ..
>> This is great! A mainstream, patchable OS -- not locked into a half-bake=
d
>> OS or roll-your-own-TCP-stack hell I've seen in some remote serial and
>> power devices.
> ..
>=20
> Yes, instead of a hacked together hardwareboard, or appliance with
> firmware that never gets updated stuck in SSH v1 days (old Cisco?)..
> Freetserv looks interesting, but very costly once you add up the BOM.=20
>=20
> I'd get something like a 1U ATOM server ($120 eBay) with small SSD
> ($18). Runup your favorite FOSS OS, and conserver. For more than the
> single real serialport, you can most likely fit a USB hub inside
> the case still, and hang a number of USB serial dongles off.
>=20
> Rackmountable, maintainable, and conserver works great.
>=20
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