From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 18 02:10:55 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 809A716A41F for ; Sun, 18 Dec 2005 02:10:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from willmaier@ml1.net) Received: from out4.smtp.messagingengine.com (out4.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.28]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19BB243D66 for ; Sun, 18 Dec 2005 02:10:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from willmaier@ml1.net) Received: from frontend1.internal (mysql-sessions.internal [10.202.2.149]) by frontend1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3434D248D5 for ; Sat, 17 Dec 2005 21:10:46 -0500 (EST) Received: from frontend2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.151]) by frontend1.internal (MEProxy); Sat, 17 Dec 2005 21:10:46 -0500 X-Sasl-enc: +GuGNHufQ0OlXSGL0sGtNW3UvJ8dAWfO6wS3HrqJtW0u 1134871845 Received: from localhost (mdsnwikwbas08-pool4-a199.mdsnwikw.tds.net [69.129.195.199]) by frontend2.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3317757146D for ; Sat, 17 Dec 2005 21:10:44 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 20:12:02 -0600 From: Will Maier To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20051218021202.GC21903@merkur.atekomi.net> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Subject: Re: Device needed to manage several FreeBSD servers X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 02:10:55 -0000 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 -- o--------------------------{ Will Maier }--------------------------o | jabber:..wcmaier@jabber.ccc.de | email:..........wcmaier@ml1.net | | \.........wcmaier@cae.wisc.edu | \..........wcmaier@cae.wisc.edu | *------------------[ BSD Unix: Live Free or Die ]------------------*