I have one of these, but I really only use it to connect the old VIC-20 to BBS systems. It works alright, but it's a bit funky in it's implementation. As others have said, it's completely plaintext; everything is sent in the clear. You'd be telnetting (not ssh) into it. How much do you trust your network?
Aside from that, it should work, though I'm not sure how robust it'd be under long-term usage. You can find versions without the case on eBay for about $10USD, and at that price it's basically disposable. Pick one up and try it out. Jon tab...@obsolete.site On Apr 8, 2019, at 09:07, "LÉVAI Dániel" <l...@ecentrum.hu> wrote: Hi misc@! I was wondering if I could use some budget solution to access my OpenBSD machine via its serial console over the network, and I stumbled upon this piece of hardware: [1] [2] [3] (the same device "USR-TCP232-302", I'm just not sure which one will be up at the time someone looks at them) It basically should be able convert the serial port to TCP/IP networking. Is this something anyone else has used before -- or if you know something similar, I'm really interested! Thanks, Dani [1] - https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Q18041-USR-TCP232-302-Tiny-Size-Serial-RS232-to-Ethernet-TCP-IP-Server-Module-Ethernet-Converter/32683105763.html [2] - https://www.aliexpress.com/item/USR-TCP232-302-Tiny-Size-Serial-RS232-to-Ethernet-TCP-IP-Server-Module-Ethernet-Converter-Support/32899179930.html [3] - https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Q18041-USR-TCP232-302-Tiny-Size-Serial-RS232-to-Ethernet-TCP-IP-Server-Module-Ethernet-Converter/32685599659.html On Apr 8, 2019, 09:07, at 09:07, "LÉVAI Dániel" <l...@ecentrum.hu> wrote: >Hi misc@! > >I was wondering if I could use some budget solution to access my >OpenBSD >machine via its serial console over the network, and I stumbled upon >this piece of hardware: [1] [2] [3] (the same device "USR-TCP232-302", >I'm just not sure which one will be up at the time someone looks at >them) > >It basically should be able convert the serial port to TCP/IP >networking. Is this something anyone else has used before -- or if you >know something similar, I'm really interested! > > >Thanks, >Dani > >[1] - >https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Q18041-USR-TCP232-302-Tiny-Size-Serial-RS232-to-Ethernet-TCP-IP-Server-Module-Ethernet-Converter/32683105763.html >[2] - >https://www.aliexpress.com/item/USR-TCP232-302-Tiny-Size-Serial-RS232-to-Ethernet-TCP-IP-Server-Module-Ethernet-Converter-Support/32899179930.html >[3] - >https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Q18041-USR-TCP232-302-Tiny-Size-Serial-RS232-to-Ethernet-TCP-IP-Server-Module-Ethernet-Converter/32685599659.html > >-- >LÉVAI Dániel >PGP key ID = 0x83B63A8F >Key fingerprint = DBEC C66B A47A DFA2 792D 650C C69B BE4C 83B6 3A8F
