Here at work (HP) we hook the serial ports of our server boxes onto a Lantronix box. One ETS16 can have up to 16 serial ports connected to it.
The beauty is the Lantronix allows you Ethernet access to it: you can telnet to the Lantronix and connect to the console on any machine. Moreover, it supports multiple uesrs logged on, and has a reasonable command line interface.
Use the "Console on serial port" kernel compile option and rebuild your kernel. 2.2.x kernels support this.
We use them to do remote kernel debugging from home, or to do alternate boot paths during system bring-up.
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Here at work (HP) we hook the serial ports of our server boxes onto a Lantronix box. One ETS16 can have up to 16 serial ports connected to it.
The beauty is the Lantronix allows you Ethernet access to it: you can telnet to the Lantronix and connect to the console on any machine. Moreover, it supports multiple uesrs logged on, and has a reasonable command line interface.
Use the "Console on serial port" kernel compile option and rebuild your kernel. 2.2.x kernels support this.
We use them to do remote kernel debugging from home, or to do alternate boot paths during system bring-up.
See http://www.lantronix.com
Mark.
mcrosbie@best.com