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* Re: What's left over. 700 1-port console server
@ 2002-11-01  4:06 Vagn Scott
  2002-11-01  4:32 ` Michael Shuey
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Vagn Scott @ 2002-11-01  4:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel; +Cc: shuey



> 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.

For extra credit follow http://yost.com/Computers/RJ45-serial/
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* Re: What's left over. 700 1-port console server
  2002-11-01  4:06 What's left over. 700 1-port console server Vagn Scott
@ 2002-11-01  4:32 ` Michael Shuey
  2002-11-01  4:53   ` Werner Almesberger
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Michael Shuey @ 2002-11-01  4:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Vagn Scott; +Cc: linux-kernel

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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* Re: What's left over. 700 1-port console server
  2002-11-01  4:32 ` Michael Shuey
@ 2002-11-01  4:53   ` Werner Almesberger
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Werner Almesberger @ 2002-11-01  4:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: shuey; +Cc: Vagn Scott, linux-kernel

Michael Shuey wrote:
> And how, praytell, am I supposed to do that when most of my cluster nodes
> only have one (1) serial port?

That's plenty. The RX wire and the TX wire don't have to go to the
same machine :-))

- Werner

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