On 31/01/2012 09:11, Saku Ytti wrote: > For me, required features are This is part of the problem here. You want a terminal server which was designed for console access. Most of the terminal servers on the market are by-products of the modem dialin era and their development function was aimed at a different market. Consequently, they are better at stuff like modem dialin and stuff like that rather than console management.
The problem is that there isn't a large market for console servers designed specifically for management console access, and there are a pile of incumbents in the existing market place. I like feature list you posted, btw. If there were any console servers out there with these features, I would buy a bunch of them. > RS232 console on control-plane is ridiculously useless, you cannot copy > images over it (even if supported, images are several hundreds megabytes). > It is completely dependant on control-plane working which is very poor > requirement for OOB. Yeah, indeed. And most of us have been stuck in the "omfg, the router is crashing and I'm in a hotel 2000km away, with crap OOB access, FML" situation more than once. Nick
