Re: serial consoles and lots of machines...

["C. Bensend" <benny_(_at_)_bennyvision_(_dot_)_com>]

> Thanks Byron. This is for my garage, not a real data center. As for "why
> serial" it's for testing, debugging and development. I've got KVM's if
> it's really a matter of just use. Since I've got a lot of the supported
> OpenBSD archs just sitting around waiting for a job that requires, my
> thought is to get them all wired up together via serial and put them to
> work testing OBSD (rather than being stored and unused most of the
> time).

Hell, you could pick up a Livingston Portmaster on Ebay and use that as
a console server for 30 machines, if you like.

Benny


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