<html><head><style>body{font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px}</style></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;">Hi Alex,</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;">I do basically the same using a raspberry-pi. I have debian installed on it with a couple of USB hubs and USB to serial adaptors.</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;">Its been working well for a long time now with about 7 USB serial adaptors on it.</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;"><br></div> <div id="bloop_sign_1487136002538452224" class="bloop_sign">
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</div> <div style="color:black"><br>From: <span style="color:black">Alex Samad</span> <a href="mailto:alex@samad.com.au"><alex@samad.com.au></a><br>Reply: <span style="color:black">Alex Samad</span> <a href="mailto:alex@samad.com.au"><alex@samad.com.au>></a><br>Date: <span style="color:black">15 February 2017 at 3:00:17 pm</span><br>To: <span style="color:black">Nathan Brookfield</span> <a href="mailto:nathan.brookfield@simtronic.com.au"><nathan.brookfield@simtronic.com.au>></a><br>Cc: <span style="color:black">Ausnog</span> <a href="mailto:ausnog@lists.ausnog.net"><ausnog@lists.ausnog.net>></a><br>Subject: <span style="color:black"> Re: [AusNOG] ethernet to serial <br></span></div><br> <blockquote type="cite" class="clean_bq"><span><div><div></div><div>
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<div dir="ltr">Thanks for the extra info.
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<div>The thought of building your own.</div>
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<div>I have just added some phy servers to my DC- everything else
is Vitual.</div>
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<div>I could add a USB to multi serial dongle to these and use them
as terminal server. The OS is centos.</div>
<div>Any one tried that ?</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 14 February 2017 at 18:09, Nathan
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<p>That sounds very unusual Peter, I've literally used hundreds of
them in all shapes and sizes and never run into an issue like this,
it's just talking straight RS232....</p>
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problems with Cisco switches.<br>
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On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 4:57 PM, Jonathan Brewer <<a href="mailto:jon.brewer@gmail.com" target="_blank">jon.brewer@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> <a href="http://www.moxa.com/product/Terminal_Servers.htm" target="_blank">http://www.moxa.com/product/<wbr>Terminal_Servers.htm</a><br>
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> I've had some Moxa nPort devices in use for ten years now in
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