From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Jun 15 2:17:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from sneeze.tasam.com (sneeze.tasam.com [63.99.164.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4744C37B405 for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2001 02:17:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from clash@fireduck.com) Received: from battleship (sneeze.tasam.com [63.99.164.10]) by sneeze.tasam.com (8.11.4/8.11.4) with SMTP id f5F9H5N47345 for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2001 05:17:07 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <004a01c0f57b$e5733890$0b2d2d0a@battleship> From: "Joseph Gleason" To: Subject: hardware to control multiple FreeBSD boxes via serial? Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 05:16:36 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.3018.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.3018.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I am looking for a peice of hardware that allows me and my crew to control a bunch of FreeBSD boxes via serial console. So basicly I am looking for a box with a bunch of serial ports and an ethernet ports. By a bunch I mean 20 or 30 ports. Some features I am looking for: - Allows admin to telnet in and then specify which port to attach to - Some sort of authentication (obviously) - Per port access controls (certain users can access certain ports, etc) - Cheap. Our ISP robs us blind, thus we have very little money. - Allows multiple connections at once to diffrent ports (admins working on multiple machines) I know a livingston portmaster 2 can do most of it, but it really isn't designed with this sort of use in mind. I am wondering if there are any other options. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message