Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 02:42:12 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best serial console server construction method? Message-ID: <3ED1E174.1FF28676@mindspring.com> References: <20030526041513.GP81874@procyon.firepipe.net> <20030526085938.GA70751@freebie.xs4all.nl>
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Wilko Bulte wrote: > On Mon, May 26, 2003 at 08:24:04AM +0200, Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote: > > You may want to check ebay (or its local ilk) for a serial terminal > > server. They are usually available there and in the 25-75 dollar range for > > a <16 port version. > > Yup, that should work. Say an old DECserver 700 or so. Works with > 'conserver' (in ports) just dandy. We run something like that at work > (albeit from Tru64) Be careful buying old DEC Servers, if you don't have a VMS or Tru64 box around; when they boot, they ask for their MOP_MOM. 8-). Basically, their firmware gets downloaded via MOP, and they need something to talk to them to be able to boot (MOP = Maintenance Operations Protocol). Cute little 68K boxes, those DECServers. I actually have some terminal servers that have ROMs in them, but they won't do you any good, now that XNS has been tossed in the Attic (they only talk XNS). -- Terry
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