Device needed to manage several FreeBSD servers

[Will Maier]

On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 03:11:24PM -0800, patrick wrote:
> I have a bunch of FreeBSD servers to manage, and I'm wanting to
> find a device that lets you SSH/telnet in, and access the servers
> connected to it via serial cables. I know such a device exists,
> but it was a long time ago since I last saw one, and I'm not
> really sure what one of these would be called. Has anyone had any
> experience with such a device?

Other responses in the thread are correct -- you're looking for a
console server (or a serial concentrator). There's an article
shipped with FreeBSD that describes just this type of thing; it's
also available online:

    http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/console-server/index.html

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