Re: PC console/terminal server for home lab

From: Leigh Harrison (ccileigh@gmail.com)
Date: Thu Dec 15 2005 - 10:49:53 GMT-3


Hey there,

When I had my home lab, I had 4 console cables from 1 pc. It used 2 x
com ports and 2 x usb ports, using usb to serial cables (I got them from
ebay). My computer (under windows) called them by different comport
numbers, under linux it called them different tty names.

LH

Kim Onnel wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I'm trying to roll the cheapest terminal server possible for my lab, one has
>suggested that i put a PC with a USB hub that converts to serials and then
>back to RJ, however i dont know if that will work and even so how do i
>configure this on a windows or linux machine ?
>
>I also heared of some PCI cards that do that too, any suggestions ?
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
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>long as its very very cheap poorman ccie wannabe :)
>
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