Those look very nice. Hard to believe we are still using serial ports though. Even Cisco gear for some time now has had USB console ports.
Once they stopped putting serial ports on laptops, I always dreaded dragging out the USB-serial dongle and trying to make it work. Now I have a laptop that doesn't even have an Ethernet port, luckily the Best Buy house brand USB3-GigE dongle I picked up has worked flawlessly. USB-serial not so much. -----Original Message----- From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Steve Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2016 9:55 AM To: af <af@afmug.com> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Ip, console server? We use opengear. Really good stuff. It even logs the console. Cellular, wireless etc etc.. too many features to mention here. Little pricey. http://opengear.com/products/acm5500-management-gateway ----- Original Message ----- From: "Josh Baird" <joshba...@gmail.com> To: "af" <af@afmug.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2016 12:27:10 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Ip, console server? Here is the solution that we just rolled: https://www.get-console.com/shop/en/device-servers/98-airconsole-ts-8-port.html We then bought a used Cradlepoint+Verizon modem off of eBay for < $200. It's the cheapest solution that you will find. Get-Console has a 'cloud server' that we host in EC2 that tunnels the consoles to the server. You don't have to have a public routable IP on Verizon for this (which costs $500) to work properly. Other than some minor support issues (the company is located in NZ), everything is working pretty smoothly. On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 12:05 PM, Tushar Patel <tpa...@ecpi.com> wrote: > Hi > > > > We may get into situation where we may need to do remote management of > router via console port. > > > > Any suggestion on ip console server to buy? 8 or 16 port. > > > > Thanks, > > Tushar >
