On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Martin wrote:
> > Rather than respond to this flame-bait, I'll ask a relatively on-topic
> > question. Does anyone know a vendor of reasonably low-cost (<US$2000),
> > rack-mountable computers that use a serial console and run some
> > flavour of UNIX? Preferably *BSD, as I want to run IPFILTER (old
I can't imagine that the all the BSDs don't allow serial consoles...
I certainly can find a post on a NetBSD mailing list whith instructions
for enabling it.
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-users/1997/12/09/0001.html
intimates Net- and Open- should do just fine.
> I don't recall just what the cost is, but it should be in your ballpark;
> Telenet (didn't someone buy them?) at www.tesys.com has a 1U PC, and I
> know the have motherboards which support serial console.
>
> I only posted this to the list to see if anyone knew of a reason not to
> use telenet's products.
Serial ports come on all motherboards, what would be the reasoning for
special hardware? I'd imagine any 1U PC should be fine with a terminal
controller hooked to it, or did I miss something?
Paul
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