[svlug] Motherboards w/ serial consoles?

[Sam Ockman]

If 1, 3, and 5 were replaced with expensive, you can get a device that
grabs the video output of multiple machines, and converts it to serial.
Then you can control you're whole server room from home, even if it's made 
up of Linux PCs.

-Sam

On Wed, Nov 18, 1998 at 03:46:30PM -0800, Greg Retkowski wrote:
> Hi,
>   I'm interested if anyone has a line on motherboards which support a
> serial console out of the bios. I happened apon a great 496 box that had
> this feature (it was formerly a network sniffer) and it worked well as a
> router because of this feature. I may be looking at building several of 
> these boxes in the future so I'm trying to track down a source for such 
> a thing. The requirements are:
> 
> 1. cheap
> 2. slotted for pentium.
> 3. cheap
> 4. serial console support.
> 5. cheap
> 6. reliable source.
> 7. and finally, cheap.
> 
> -- Greg
> 
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