Multiple serial consoles via null modem cable

[Marin Atanasov]

Thank you a lot for your feedback!

Now to the real question again, because I'm a little confused now - can I
still get a usb-to-serial port converter having let's say 8 serial ports and
then connect each machine to the usb-to-serial hub and manage them remotely
from a single location (the host having the usb-to-serial hub)? That way I
just specify a serial port number and I get to a specific machine?

The model provided by Boris looks nice, and that was my initial idea, but
I'm not sure if I could get it working under FreeBSD. Is conserver or
conserver-com able to handle this? I know that cu uses COM1 only, but will
conserver able to handle serial consoles on different ports, since the
usb-to-serial port would appear as multiple serial ports.

Thank you and regards,
Marin


On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 7:04 PM, Boris Samorodov <bsam at ipt.ru> wrote:

> On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:14:44 +0200 Marin Atanasov wrote:
>
> > I'm thinking about the following situation - 1 system acting like a host
> > with a serial port hub, each port of the hub is connected to a different
> > machine on sio0, using null modem cables.
>
> Along with milti-io serial cards we use multi-usb serial
> converters, such as SUNIX UTS7009P (7 USB to serial adapter):
> http://www.sunix.com.tw/it/en/LinkCraft/UTS4009P_UTS7009P.htm
>
> --
> WBR, Boris Samorodov (bsam)
> Research Engineer, http://www.ipt.ru Telephone & Internet SP
> FreeBSD Committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve
>



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