Re: OT: serial console management system

[William Yardley <taroon veggiechinese net>]

On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 12:52:44PM +0100, Björn Augustsson wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 03:00:33PM -0500, Dan Pritts wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 01:12:41PM -0600, Paul Krizak wrote:

> > > I'll second the cyclades stuff -- we've been using their 32-port
> > > TS-2000 terminal servers for ages with no problems at all.  Highly
> > > recommended.
> > 
> > I have had generally good luck with cyclades as well.

> > digi makes a line that works reasonably well from what my colleague
> > told me, and was cheaper than cyclades.
 
> I've used digi gear since they were called Control Data, and it works
> really well. (One busted port in all those years) 
[...] 
> The Etherlite products are neat, the ports show up as regular ttys on
> a designated machine, so you can use normal software (eg screen) on
> it.

We used digi at my old work, and they're pretty good. The Cyclades (from
my limited experience) seem to have a slightly nicer user interface
etc., but it's pretty easy to write some wrapper scripts around the digi
stuff to make it a little easier to use (that's what we did, anyway).

I've heard good stuff about the cyclades, but they are a little on the
expensive side.

There are some other products on the market now as well. I think we
evaluated one of the Lantronix units; IIRC, you can get an eval unit to
try out for free.

w