Rack Mount Servers

[pll at lanminds.com]

In a message dated: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 20:39:41 EDT
"Tom Buskey" said:


>Another advantage of sparcs: you can install with a serial terminal.  No
>graphics card, monitor or keyboard needed.  Serial console servers in
>the data center is much better then a KVM.  Ever try to use a KVM in
>your DC in San Diego, CA from Burlington, MA?

No, but at MCL all our servers were PCs running Linux, and we had 
serial consoles on every one of them.  We could easily reboot and get 
the lilo prompt, boot single user, etc.  Worked just fine.  Oh, and 
the terminal server even supported ssh :)
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Paul
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