[PLUG] serial console administration

Eli Stair eli.stair at gmail.com
Fri Sep 23 23:28:21 UTC 2005


Yep, a PowerPC box with a REALLY kludgy hacked-up linux 'distro' :)

/eli

On 9/23/05, Wil Cooley <wcooley at nakedape.cc> wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 15:59 -0700, Paul Heinlein wrote:
> > On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, Eli Stair wrote:
> >
> > > The Cyclades units I've been using (ACS series) [....]
> >
> > The Cyclades units are the unix systems of serial consoles: you can do
> > just about anything with them. I was completely blown away at all the
> > configuration options on those things.
> >
> > The Digi CM units aren't nearly as flexible, though they certainly
> > handle standard console setups just fine. I ended up ordering the Digi
> > because I've had good prior experience with the company's products,
> > it's got Linux under the hood, and it was ca. $1000 cheaper than the
> > Cyclades. (I got it on sale from Dell for a few hundred dollars below
> > retail price.)
>
> Aren't the Cyclades embedded Linux systems too?
>
> Wil
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> Wil Cooley <wcooley at nakedape.cc>
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