[lug] Console Hardware

[Joseph McDonald]

> Can you get an analog phone line?  A modem hanging off the serial port 
> of the Dell in auto-answer mode without any intelligence on the part of 
> the Dell, or you could run mgetty/ppp.

I hadn't thought of that but I can see myself getting
charged an arm and a leg for a pot's line.

> I don't know of any 1RU product that's going to be cheap enough to 
> justify to most folks these days... when you can get Via C3 chipset 
> mini-computer type machines so cheap...
> 
> Something like that might be more useful than just a console box...?
> 
> I've seen some pretty small non-rack-mount cases for those.
> 
> That 1RU requirement hurts...

It does, but I just scored this:

  http://www.blackbox.co.uk/page.asp?cc=UK&pc=5&tc=1&bc=produkte/produkte&id=les2800a

on ebay for $46. Supports SSH v2, and IP filtering..

  http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3042375734&category=1484&rd=1

Ahh.. ebay..

	--joey