Thanks to all who responded to me, quite the flood of suggestions and options. Found a lot of 20 Digi CM32's on ebay for 35 dollars each, overkill but can't beat the price, going to look into those to make sure they are still able to get OS updates. There will be no firewall in front of this device so it should have one itself. I like the raspberry pi idea... Would ensure perpetual security updates with the OS running on it, whereas I'm sure some of the vendors of commercial console products EOL support at some point. The fact it runs linux is inviting as we can add it to our monitoring systems. have a great day, greg On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 10:33 AM, Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com
wrote:
for singular serial .. there are many, do you want something that's "appliance" or are you willing to deploy 18 raspnberry-pi-like thingies?
On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 10:30 AM, greg whynott <greg.whynott@gmail.com> wrote:
Recently I have taking over the responsibility of managing about 18 remote routers and firewalls. None of these have a console port for 'out of band' access accessible today.
Most sites has available IPs between the ISP and us (typically a /29) or a backup DSL connection available for use. I'd like to purchase a IP to Serial port device I can use for each location in the event I lock myself out. The requirement would be an Ethernet port, a serial port, and SSH.
Anyone have any recommendations on something like this?
thanks much, greg