On Tue, 2010-01-12 at 17:14 +0200, Marin Atanasov wrote: > Hello there, > > I'd like to ask you about the following - is it possible to have multiple > serial consoles coming from a single host? > > What I am talking about is connecting multiple machines using a null modem > cable - I know it is possible only to connect two machines and they need to > be connected on sio0 (COM1). > > I'm thinking about the following situation - 1 system acting like a host > with a serial port hub, each port of the hub is connected to a different > machine on sio0, using null modem cables. > > This would make the first machine something like a cheaper kind of a > terminal concentrator :) > > What do you think, have someone tried this and is it possible at all?
I have a dozen UBS2serial (uplcom) up 24/7 over more than 6 months, on 8.0 (NanoBSD on ITX-board) in our serverrooms. They work pretty stable and are dead cheap. Max 20 Euro per line, including a null-modem adapter. like: http://www.gridconnect.com/numomatomadb.html or http://www.buyextras.com/numoaddb9fef.html I payed about ~3 dollars per adapter. (shipping to Europe was most expensive) Kind regards, Marten > > Thanks and regards, > DNAeon > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" -- http://www.voedselbankleiden.nl needs your help! http://martenvijn.nl http://bsd.wifisoft.org/nek/ http://opencommunitycamp.org OCC 2010 _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"