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HI,

I have most or the kit I need to put my lab in the attic. Patch panels
& coms cabinet etc. Now I need a cheap terminal server to config my
gear.

Anyone have any recommendations ?

There are quite a few on ebay, but will they work with cisco stuff?

Cheers

In article < .com>,
boxers999 <> wrote:
>I have most or the kit I need to put my lab in the attic. Patch panels
>& coms cabinet etc. Now I need a cheap terminal server to config my
>gear.

>Anyone have any recommendations ?

How many serial ports? Do you require remove control of power switches,
and if so how many? Will you be able to hardwire a serial (RS232/RS422)
line to the terminal server, or should it be network addressible?
If it is to be network addressible, which level of security do you
require for the terminal/power server itself? Do you need multiple
-simultaneous- monitoring channels (e.g., different telnet sessions
might be active to different devices)?


When I was investigating, the best price/feature tradeoff I found
for remote serial + power equipment was from synaccess-net.com,
but YMMV .

>How many serial ports? Do you require remove control of power switches,
>and if so how many? Will you be able to hardwire a serial (RS232/RS422)
>line to the terminal server, or should it be network addressible?
>If it is to be network addressible, which level of security do you
>require for the terminal/power server itself? Do you need multiple
>-simultaneous- monitoring channels (e.g., different telnet sessions
>might be active to different devices)?
>When I was investigating, the best price/feature tradeoff I found
>for remote serial + power equipment was from synaccess-net.com,
>but YMMV .

Yes, I could hard wire a serial line, no problem. Really all I was
looking for was some way of configuring my 3 routers and 3 switches via
the console port, from a different location. I will probably need about
8 serial ports.

Cheers

Hi,

You can try xyplex maxserver 1620 or if you need only 8 ports you can
search for cisco 2509 (2511 for 16 ports). On eBay you can find some
auctions on these...

Some links:

http://www.mrv.com/products/line/inreach.php
http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/...vrug/index.htm

Hope this helps

Marcial Colomer


> >How many serial ports? Do you require remove control of power switches,
> >and if so how many? Will you be able to hardwire a serial (RS232/RS422)
> >line to the terminal server, or should it be network addressible?
> >If it is to be network addressible, which level of security do you
> >require for the terminal/power server itself? Do you need multiple
> >-simultaneous- monitoring channels (e.g., different telnet sessions
> >might be active to different devices)?
> >When I was investigating, the best price/feature tradeoff I found
> >for remote serial + power equipment was from synaccess-net.com,
> >but YMMV .
>
> Yes, I could hard wire a serial line, no problem. Really all I was
> looking for was some way of configuring my 3 routers and 3 switches via
> the console port, from a different location. I will probably need about
> 8 serial ports.
>
> Cheers

In article <. com>,
boxers999 <> wrote:
>Yes, I could hard wire a serial line, no problem. Really all I was
>looking for was some way of configuring my 3 routers and 3 switches via
>the console port, from a different location.

Looking back at some of my documentation, I see that vendors include
(alphabetical order):

APC, Clyclades, Dataprobe, Digi International, Lantronix, ServerTech,
Synaccess Networks

I remember that there were some others, but somehow I seem to have
forgotten to Cc: myself on some of the key messages.