They had much faster processors, still ran linux and In the late 2000s I became a big fan of Opengear. (nevermind that the firmware updates seems to have stopped in 2008 - ) You can still get TS-3000s for around $100 on ebay, but just be warned that it's a 50Mhz powerpc 8xxĬhip with 128MB of RAM you're buying and you'll start to want someting better. These were pretty awesome since they were running linux, but Cyclades got bought up byĪlterpath who was bought by Avocent and then eventually went to Emerson? You could serial console up a whole rack of servers with cleanĬabling and 1U. Then came Cyclades TS-3000s in the earlu 2000s, which was blue and sexy and cost a bit, but had 48 ports (when you weren't just using an old school vt520Īmber serial terminal console to be cool like Libor.)
It used to be that you took an old cisco 2500/2600 router with an aysnc interface and used an octopusĬable and that was how you talked to serial consoles. Grumpy Network/Sysadmin in his 40s rambling on a bit. This page documents a websockets approach to create a web serial console. packaging something nice in a ppa for raspberrian?Ĭonsole-server package does 80% of the work.logging/buffering stuff coming in serial port so it's there for the next login (show me the oops!).ssh port to serial port direct mapping (eg, port 2201 maps to serial 1).multiplex'd serial access (more than one user can watch/interact at the same time).https Web console to serial with auth of some sort.Easy ssh based console access (minicom? screen? tmux?).Startech 4-port serial to USB 2.0(or 8-port or 16-port!).Other parts to consider for possible future improvements: Pi 2, case, power adapter to micro-usb, 32GB micro sd, powered USB 2.0 hub, 4 USB to serial adapters, 1U shelf. Exploring using a Pi as a console server. The old ones out there are running ancient versions of ssh and ancient kernels and SHOULD NOT be on the public internet. Serial console servers have been around forever and always been curiously expensive. Notes and setup detail about setting up a Raspberry Pi to act as a Serial Console Server (Serial Concentrator) The Problem
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