On Wed, 20 Jul 2005, Drew Weaver wrote:
Buying the hardware boxes sounds pretty attractive, but I wondered if any industrious open sourcers have come up with anything that any NANOG-ers have come across that would do something similar to what the Dell 2161DS box would do. I realize we would need a server with some cards in it to terminate the connections and then some cards to go in the boxes, we just need a bit more density than 16 ports.
I've been mostly successful in eliminating the need for most of our kvm ports, formerly with pc weasels, and more recently with servers supporting ipmi directly or through an addon card. the pc weasels required terminal servers the ipmi cards just require that you put the first network interface on the machine someplace you can reach. weasel http://www.realweasel.com/ ipmi http://www.intel.com/design/servers/ipmi/
Tia
-Drew
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