<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Can be dependent on whether you have LOM type ports on your equipment in which case you can have Ethernet into a console.<div><br></div><div>Cyclades are still quite widespread in their use.</div><div><br></div><div>re: terminal servers getting old and hard to support, is there that much provisioning on them? Once they’re in, they don’t change much typically and can last a proverbial lifetime.</div><div><br><div><div>On 17 Mar 2014, at 7:53 am, Raymond, Adam <<a href="mailto:Adam.Raymond@nextgengroup.com.au">Adam.Raymond@nextgengroup.com.au</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div lang="EN-AU" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1;"><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Hi,<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> At my place of work we have a number of sites that still use terminal servers for last ditch access to routers and switches. These terminal servers are getting pretty old and they are fairly hard to support. We want to keep terminal servers in the network, so I am looking at replacing them. Does anyone have any suggestions on a good vendor for terminal servers or what sort of solution fills a similar niche?<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> As an aside, are terminal servers in widespread use still? Do people see them as still valid. I believe they are, mostly as they allow you the ability to watch a device reboot and give you remote access to a device independent of any configuration on the device, something an ethernet management port cannot do. What do other people think?<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Adam Raymond<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>AusNOG mailing list<br><a href="mailto:AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net</a><br><a href="http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog</a></div></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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