[AusNOG] ethernet to serial

[Colin Stubbs]

Wow. Yeah… 2511 as a suggestion. That’s… some kinda whacky time warp.

To be fair. If it hasn’t died by now it probably never will. But hardware
from that Cisco generation runs like a stoned turtle in my experience. It’s
actually very painful to use. 20Mhz CPU and all…

Oh and then there’s the security issues with using Telnet only; and running
code that hasn’t been patched in a decade+.

If you’re going to go the Cisco route you can do the same sort of thing
with anything that’ll take a HWIC-8/16/32A or similar. 2800/2900/whatevs.
It’s still stupid but at least you’ll be able to use SSH and have half a
chance of getting things working again before 9 AM the following Monday.

+1 for OpenGear.

On 15 February 2017 at 23:11, John Edwards <jaedwards at gmail.com> wrote:

> Cisco 2511 went EoS in 2004.
>
> That means that even if you can find one that is part of the very last
> manufacturing run; every single component within the case is on the wrong
> side of a MTBF average lifetime.
>
> John
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On 14 Feb 2017, at 5:40 pm, Scott Howard <scott at doc.net.au> wrote:
>
> Cisco 2511.  Should be able to pick one up on ebay for about $100.  Just
> don't forget the Octal kits...
>
>   Scott
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 4:54 PM, Alex Samad <alex at samad.com.au> wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> Looking for a serial port terminal server sort of thing.
>>
>> Something I can ssh / telnet to and select a serial port I would like to
>> talk to.
>>
>> Something I could plug say 6-12 serial ports into
>>
>> Do such a thing exist.
>>
>> basically want to access my serial ports on my networking / storage  gear
>> remotely
>>
>> Alex
>>
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