Eight miles straight up downtown somewhere.

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Dear Lazyweb,

I beg the assistance of your expertise. Please tell me what I need to know about remote serial console servers. We have seven Suns at present and would just go for a null modem cable on some PC's serial port at this stage — this was certainly all I and my laptop, a.k.a. Expensive Serial Console, needed at Ericsson — but we might be getting quite a few more Sun boxes minus vidyer cards (ew) and need something for them. I have been asked to write up a shiny consultant document. At what stage do you need one, what brands or models did you like or need to stay away from and what sorta cash did you fork out?

(Four of the Suns have graphical consoles [ew]. This question only came up because the three new ones don't.)