Emulating a Cyclades/Annex

[Tom Buskey]

>
> Anybody have a straightforward HOWTO that explains what's
> necessary to mke a Linux box act like a cheap serial-port
> concentrator, something like an Annex or Cyclades box?
>
> In other words, I want to rig SystemA such that it has a
> serial console with that serial port wired over to SystemB
> such that I can say something like
>
>    telnet SystemB somePort
>
> ...from SystemC and be connected directly to the console
> of SystemA

There's a program on freshmeat called conserver that I've used in a
similar manner:

telnet systemA
System C is a serial console you can telnet into
systema$ conserver systemC-port

Maybe not quite what you want, but conserver should have links....