Re: serial to IP adapter?

Is

http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=103&cp_id=10311&cs_id=1031104&p_id=2067&seq=1&format=2

a stupid suggestion for this?  And with hubs you could essentially have 127 
comm ports per root hub.  Or do the extra hubs count as devices?  Can't 
remember, but you'd still be able to connect a lot.  By the original mail it 
sounded like you just needed a way to manage multiple switches (or other 
network appliances) and these would make sense to me.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "..I'd rather be coding ASM!" <[email protected]>
To: "Kenneth P. Persing" <[email protected]>
Cc: "Brian" <[email protected]>; "list NetBSD Cobalt" 
<[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 11:20 PM
Subject: Re: serial to IP adapter?


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> I suspect by the sound of it, he wants a central machine with multiple 
> serial ports hanging off it to control 'n' machines. But, perhaps I've 
> mis-understood also.
>
> --
>  --
>  Al Boyanich
>  adb -w -P "world> " -k /dev/meta/galaxy/ksyms /dev/god/brain
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> On Tue, 4 Aug 2009, Kenneth P. Persing wrote:
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>> What exactly are we trying to do here?  if you are troubleshooting boot
>> issues, why don't you just run a null modem...  if you want network
>> connectivity via the serial port, set up a ppp server over the null
>> modem post boot.
>>
>> am i missing something?
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>>
>> On Tue, 2009-08-04 at 19:04 -0400, Brian wrote:
>>>
>>> Does anyone have recommendations for inexpensive  IP/ serial adapters
>>> that would work to troubleshoot occasional boot issues?  A way to put
>>> some old Cisco gear to use perhaps, although I do not see any way to
>>> do that at the moment-
>>>
>>> Thank you-
>>>
>>> Brian
>>>
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