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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.
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> I'll try it when I get the first server assembled. Thanks a lot!
Hey, glad to help :-)
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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
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
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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