Re: Using serial console as a poor mans IP kvm?

2016-09-09 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Sep 09, 2016 at 09:03:33PM +0300, Jarle Aase wrote: > Hi, > > I was just about to order some usb2serial hardware when I read this. [...] > I'll try it when I get the first server assembled. Thanks a lot! Hey, glad to help :-) - -- t

Re: Using serial console as a poor mans IP kvm?

2016-09-09 Thread Jarle Aase
Hi, I was just about to order some usb2serial hardware when I read this. Your suggestion will give fewer "moving parts" and is actually very simple to implement. I will loose the ability to do a cold boot, but it will probably not matter too much in my case, at least not for now. I'll try

Re: Using serial console as a poor mans IP kvm?

2016-09-09 Thread Eike Lantzsch
On Freitag, 9. September 2016 08:15:37 PYT Tixy wrote: > On Fri, 2016-09-09 at 08:46 +0300, Lars Noodén wrote: > > I've used USB-to-serial adapters with the Prolific chipset. They've > > worked fine for me, in various models. (I haven't tried FTDI and am > > suspicious of them.) > > And my

Re: Using serial console as a poor mans IP kvm?

2016-09-09 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Sep 08, 2016 at 10:26:59PM +0300, Jarle Aase wrote: > I want to set up a few servers at home. Unfortunately, as I live in > Bulgaria at the moment, the electric power is gone pretty often for > longer periods than my UPS'es can deal with. So

Re: Using serial console as a poor mans IP kvm?

2016-09-09 Thread Tixy
On Fri, 2016-09-09 at 08:46 +0300, Lars Noodén wrote: > I've used USB-to-serial adapters with the Prolific chipset. They've > worked fine for me, in various models. (I haven't tried FTDI and am > suspicious of them.) And my experience is the opposite. I have genuine (there's apparently a lot of

Re: Using serial console as a poor mans IP kvm?

2016-09-08 Thread Lars Noodén
On 09/08/2016 10:26 PM, Jarle Aase wrote: >... > So I'm thinking about serial consoles. My gateway router will reboot > after an outage, and it can act as a VPN endpoint. So I can access IP > devices. With a rasberry pi and some relays, I can probably trigger a > cold reboot whenever I need to. If

Re: Using serial console as a poor mans IP kvm?

2016-09-08 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 08 Sep 2016, Jarle Aase wrote: > Does anyone here have any experience with remote control with Debian boxes > over serial? Will it work reliable? It's fairly reliable; I actually prefer it to using KVM in almost all cases. You just need to get it configured properly in grub, the bios, and

Re: Using serial console as a poor mans IP kvm?

2016-09-08 Thread Neal P. Murphy
On Thu, 8 Sep 2016 15:43:31 -0600 Glenn English wrote: > For remote access, the RPi sounds like a good idea to me. I've had one on the > 'Net for several years, doing things not requiring major CPU power. It's on > my UPS, and it's had no reliability problems. > > A

Re: Using serial console as a poor mans IP kvm?

2016-09-08 Thread Glenn English
For remote access, the RPi sounds like a good idea to me. I've had one on the 'Net for several years, doing things not requiring major CPU power. It's on my UPS, and it's had no reliability problems. A relatively small dedicated UPS would likely keep your border router and an RPi going for

Re: Using serial console as a poor mans IP kvm?

2016-09-08 Thread Neal P. Murphy
On Thu, 8 Sep 2016 22:26:59 +0300 Jarle Aase wrote: > I want to set up a few servers at home. Unfortunately, as I live in > Bulgaria at the moment, the electric power is gone pretty often for > longer periods than my UPS'es can deal with. So my servers will have to > be started

Re: Using serial console as a poor mans IP kvm?

2016-09-08 Thread Miles Fidelman
On 9/8/16 3:26 PM, Jarle Aase wrote: I want to set up a few servers at home. Unfortunately, as I live in Bulgaria at the moment, the electric power is gone pretty often for longer periods than my UPS'es can deal with. So my servers will have to be started at least a few times every quarter.

Re: Using serial console as a poor mans IP kvm?

2016-09-08 Thread Dan Ritter
On Thu, Sep 08, 2016 at 10:26:59PM +0300, Jarle Aase wrote: > I want to set up a few servers at home. Unfortunately, as I live in Bulgaria > at the moment, the electric power is gone pretty often for longer periods > than my UPS'es can deal with. So my servers will have to be started at least > a

Using serial console as a poor mans IP kvm?

2016-09-08 Thread Jarle Aase
I want to set up a few servers at home. Unfortunately, as I live in Bulgaria at the moment, the electric power is gone pretty often for longer periods than my UPS'es can deal with. So my servers will have to be started at least a few times every quarter. Another challenge with living in