Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 16:53:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Charles Sprickman <spork@inch.com> Sender: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Hello all,
Here's what I've found out. It's a mix. If any one solution looks to be the "winner" it's the roll-your-own solution. This is what I'm going for since it's relatively cheap for low-density installs. The only problem I'm finding is that it's tough to get a 1U box that has 2 PCI slots open. 2U seems overkill. Since Compact Flash adapters are cheap (about $20) and the cards themselves can be had for $59 (128MB), I'm going to go diskless. I'll probably use conserver, but I'll be giving rtty a try as well.
If anyone has pointers to cheap 1U or 2U's, I'm all ears. Just need a minimal box, don't need much CPU for this.
With about 13 replies, I can report the following:
Lantronix - http://www.lantronix.com/products/cs/scs820_scs1620/index.html
1 vote for, one against. The complaint was that the Lantronix has a very bad management interface.
One issue is that there are two very different Lantronix boxes, the SCSx00 and the SCSx20. The SCSx20 boxes were designed by Lightwave Communications before they were bought out by Lantronix. They are Linux boxes that reportedly have a very different management interface from the 800/1600. I have used only the 1620 and, other than the high price, I have been very pleased with them. Despite the similarity of model numbers, the two product lines are totally different. I found a review of console servers from Network Computing that reviewed quite a number of boxes at: http://www.lantronix.com/news/news/network_computing.html R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634