RE: Console Servers

2002-09-12 Thread Daniel Golding
tember 11, 2002 8:00 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Charles Sprickman > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Console Servers > > > > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > > Hi > > > > Try looki

RE: Console Servers

2002-09-11 Thread Bender, Andrew
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Hi > > Try looking at this company's line of products: > > http://www.itouchcom.com/ > > they used to be Xyplex. We've had pretty good luck with these... Like other embedded systems, they are a good fit f

Re: Console Servers

2002-09-11 Thread ml
Hi Try looking at this company's line of products: http://www.itouchcom.com/ they used to be Xyplex. Arie On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, Charles Sprickman wrote: > > 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 soluti

Re: Console Servers

2002-09-10 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, Simon Lockhart wrote: > > I also noted that BBC is using a mess of these at Telehouse... > > "...a mess..." ? Just to be clear, when I say "mess" I don't mean messy, but "a lot", "bunches", "oodles", etc. You have a very nice neat setup there, one of the better organized o

Re: Console Servers

2002-09-10 Thread Kevin Oberman
0. 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://ww

Re: Console Servers

2002-09-10 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Tue Sep 10, 2002 at 04:53:02PM -0400, Charles Sprickman wrote: > > 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. > > I also noted that BBC is using a mess of

Re: Console Servers

2002-09-10 Thread Charles Sprickman
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 slo

Re: Console Servers

2002-09-06 Thread Mike Tancsa
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

Console Servers

2002-09-06 Thread Charles Sprickman
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 Look