<div dir="ltr">Yep, that's how I do it. Works very well :) Note: You want to put monitoring on said RasPi, so you know if it goes down.. There's nothing more irritating than rebooting a switch, and having it not come back up, THEN finding out the Pi has locked up ;)</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 15 February 2017 at 16:23, Arron <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:arron@ezi-web.com.au" target="_blank">arron@ezi-web.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div id="m_779929603357282376bloop_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="m_779929603357282376bloop_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="m_779929603357282376bloop_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="m_779929603357282376bloop_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="m_779929603357282376bloop_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="m_779929603357282376bloop_sign_1487136002538452224" class="m_779929603357282376bloop_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" target="_blank"><alex@samad.com.au></a><br>Reply: <span style="color:black">Alex Samad</span> <a href="mailto:alex@samad.com.au" target="_blank"><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" target="_blank"><nathan.brookfield@simtronic.<wbr>com.au>></a><br>Cc: <span style="color:black">Ausnog</span> <a href="mailto:ausnog@lists.ausnog.net" target="_blank"><ausnog@lists.ausnog.net>></a><div><div class="h5"><br>Subject: <span style="color:black"> Re: [AusNOG] ethernet to serial <br></span></div></div></div><div><div class="h5"><br> <blockquote type="cite" class="m_779929603357282376clean_bq"><span><div><div></div><div>
<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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<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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