Re: What are folks using for serial consoles these days?

[Chris Adams via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org>]

Once upon a time, Levon Bragg <levon () shiftcs com> said:
> I may get laughed outta here, but I use Mikrotik routers that have a USB port. Then hang a USB HUB off that with as 
> many USB to serial consoles as needed.
> Setup strong firewalling on the unit, and VPN to it.
> Then I have all the Serial consoles I need.

At $LASTJOB for the main site we got a 1U Supermicro barebones and a
16-port serial breakout card.  Put CentOS Linux on it (the main server
OS there) and off we went.

Got one with 4x 1G NICs built in so we could connect to a couple of
management ports and an OOB network provider.
-- 
Chris Adams <cma () cmadams net>
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