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Re: Common Reliable Out Of Band Management Options at Carrier Hotels


From: David Charlebois <dcharlebois () gmail com>
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2017 22:25:04 -0500

We use a Lantronix serial console box (SLC-32) with a small Cisco ASA 5505
+ isolated internet. VPN is setup to assign IPs in the OOB network which
allows direct access to most management IPs as well as console ports
through the Lantronix. I also have a desktop connected with a 2nd NIC (and
no gateway on the interface pointing to the OOB) which allows me to bounce
to prod network. I love my out of band setup. I don't know your definition
of "reasonably priced", but this setup works great!

On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 3:50 PM, Markus <universe () truemetal org> wrote:

Am 17.01.2017 um 22:59 schrieb Darin Herteen:

So my inquiry is... What does the list find to be a reasonably priced yet
reliable solution in carrier hotels for OOB? Or is that contradictory :)


I use a basic 3G/GSM broadband router (Huawai, year 2007, 80 USD or so)
with a 10 USD/month SIM (500 megs data plan) and a Linux box where the
broadband router is plugged into one of the physical interfaces on that
Linux box. Then a 5 USD/month VPS in a far away Eastern European country
that most people have never even heard of, where OpenVPN runs in server
mode. On the Linux box in my LAN OpenVPN runs in client mode and then some
static routes that point to the broadband router for the IP address of the
OpenVPN server and it's done. If I want to access my LAN I will SSH into
the VPS and from there SSH into the private IP that OpenVPN assigned to the
client.

Regards
Markus




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