remote serial console (IP to Serial)

Tue Mar 8 15:35:22 UTC 2016

also, serial? or usb? (see previous cisco usb console port discussion)

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