Benj wrote:
Aha, now I get it. Thanks.A definition from http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~fine/Tech/console-server.htmlThe console server is software which can be run on a UNIX box with lots of serial ports. You plug consoles of other machines into the serial ports, and the software allows you to access these consoles from anywhere on the network. The feel is as if the console is right in front of you.
This sort of thing makes sense if the servers you're accessing via the console server are not otherwise reachable via the network. I guess it comes in handy in case your network goes down, and you only have access to that one machine with the console server running on it.
Other than that obvious case, I don't see any reason to use it over SSH.
Brian
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