On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 09:01:50AM -0500, Stephen Adler wrote:
> One way I did this in a job way back, was to get a terminal server
> which I could telnet to, and each port connected to a different
> serial port on the terminal server. I then hooked up the serial port
> to each one of the serial outputs of our servers. This was in the
> day when you hooked up a vt200 to the serial port of the system
> which served as the console. 

This solution still works... any reaon you wouldn't just do that?  I
haven't priced terminal servers in about 8 years, but I'm betting you
could get a decent one on e-bay dirt cheap.  As I recall, there were
even a few models that supported SSH instead of telnet, to keep your
terminal sessions secure.  Wouldn't surprise me if lots of them did
that now...

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