[TriLUG] Remote management with Cyclades

[Jason White]

* Chris MacLeod (stick at miscellaneous.net) [031123 22:54]:
> This may be a little late (been slack about reading mail)  but I've used
> both the cyclades black boxes and their hardware cards.  I was never
> very happy with the serial appliances.  The OS was kludgy and slow and
> lacked some things I wanted.  So I very easily build my own using the
> cyclades cards (which are excellent).  The ones I got came in 16 port
> blocks that you could join together for 128 ports per card.  Then I used
> conserver (which is originally from freebsd) to manage all the serial
> ports.  It worked much better than the cyclades appliances and was about
> $1600 cheaper (I alraedy had a server I used for the host)

Better late than never -- good stuff.  Thanks!