I just went through this exercise. In POP a) where space is a premium, I bought a 8 port RocketPort PCI serial card to sit in the FreeBSD firewall that was there. ebay $50 and made the rj-11 to {rj-45|db9} cables in house (connections to other PCs and cisco gear). In POP b) where space is not a problem, a PM2 with an existing FreeBSD box in front of it which we can SSH into, and then telnet to the individual serial ports. Have a look on ebay for Livingston PM2s. About $150-$200 US for upto 30 serial ports. At under $200, buy and extra one for your "cold standby" spare. Then, put a surplus PC in front of it (or an existing one) from where you can SSH from. On the PM2 just for the archives, set s1 device /dev/network set s1 service_device netdata 6001 set s1 override xon off set s1 modem off save s1 reset s1 where 6001 is the port you would telnet to in order to get the serial session. These are about 4U, so you will require space to spare. ---Mike At 06:42 PM 9/6/2002 -0400, Charles Sprickman wrote:
Hi,
It's been a while since I last saw this thread...
I'm looking at a few listed below and looking for comments:
Lantronix - http://www.lantronix.com/products/cs/scs820_scs1620/index.html Looks good, can't find a price on Ingram.
Cyclades - http://www.cyclades.com/products/ts_series.php Looks to run about $2100 for 16 ports
Digi - http://www.digi.com/solutions/devtermsrv/cm/index.shtml Looks to run about $1800 for 16 ports
All of the above do sshv2, and that's a requirement. I haven't found much else. For the time being I'm ruling out old stuff like a Portmaster or Xylogics.
I'd also appreciate pointers to any "roll your own" parts, esp. IDE -> Flash adapters and multiport serial cards that will work with FreeBSD.
I can summarize to keep the noise down...
Thanks,
Charles
-- Charles Sprickman spork@inch.com
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