Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 20:12:02 -0600 From: Will Maier <willmaier@ml1.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Device needed to manage several FreeBSD servers Message-ID: <20051218021202.GC21903@merkur.atekomi.net> In-Reply-To: <b043a4850512171511u1d442941o92fad7ea8580b664@mail.gmail.com> References: <b043a4850512171511u1d442941o92fad7ea8580b664@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 03:11:24PM -0800, patrick wrote:
> I have a bunch of FreeBSD servers to manage, and I'm wanting to
> find a device that lets you SSH/telnet in, and access the servers
> connected to it via serial cables. I know such a device exists,
> but it was a long time ago since I last saw one, and I'm not
> really sure what one of these would be called. Has anyone had any
> experience with such a device?
Other responses in the thread are correct -- you're looking for a
console server (or a serial concentrator). There's an article
shipped with FreeBSD that describes just this type of thing; it's
also available online:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/console-server/index.html
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