Re: What's left over. 700 1-port console server

Michael Shuey (shuey@fmepnet.org)
Thu, 31 Oct 2002 23:32:37 -0500


On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 11:06:26PM -0500, Vagn Scott wrote:
> > Do you feel like donating a 700-port console server? Right, so it's LKCD
> > for me then.
>
> You already have 700 1-port console servers.
> Plug each machine into it's neighbor with a null modem.
> Teach mgetty to do something useful with serial dumps.

And how, praytell, am I supposed to do that when most of my cluster nodes
only have one (1) serial port? Buy 700 serial cards, or a half-ton of USB
serial port dongles?

Do you feel like donating 700 serial ports? Right, so it's LKCD for me then.

-- 
Mike Shuey
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