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remote serial console (IP to Serial)
Serial port on the PI is TTL, so you?ll need some level shifters and/or
ideally some opto-isolators or buffers to do a proper implementation.
Owen
> On Mar 8, 2016, at 08:32 , greg whynott <greg.whynott at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks to all who responded to me, quite the flood of suggestions and
> options.
>
> Found a lot of 20 Digi CM32's on ebay for 35 dollars each, overkill but
> can't beat the price, going to look into those to make sure they are still
> able to get OS updates. There will be no firewall in front of this device
> so it should have one itself.
>
> I like the raspberry pi idea... Would ensure perpetual security updates
> with the OS running on it, whereas I'm sure some of the vendors of
> commercial console products EOL support at some point. The fact it runs
> linux is inviting as we can add it to our monitoring systems.
>
> have a great day,
> greg
>
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 10:33 AM, Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists at gmail.com
>> wrote:
>
>> for singular serial .. there are many, do you want something that's
>> "appliance" or are you willing to deploy 18 raspnberry-pi-like
>> thingies?
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 10:30 AM, greg whynott <greg.whynott at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> Recently I have taking over the responsibility of managing about 18
>> remote
>>> routers and firewalls. None of these have a console port for 'out of
>>> band' access accessible today.
>>>
>>> Most sites has available IPs between the ISP and us (typically a /29) or
>> a
>>> backup DSL connection available for use. I'd like to purchase a IP to
>>> Serial port device I can use for each location in the event I lock myself
>>> out. The requirement would be an Ethernet port, a serial port, and
>> SSH.
>>>
>>>
>>> Anyone have any recommendations on something like this?
>>>
>>> thanks much,
>>> greg
>>