At my work, we use these to talk to embedded hardware, and I find them
to work quite nice. The price however, I don't know. I just draw the
boards and make software.

http://www.lantronix.com/device-networking/embedded-device-servers/xport.html


They also provide digial-io, which you can hook up to let's say, your
reset button :-)


Stian Skjelstad


On Sat, 2006-09-02 at 18:32 -0500, Alex wrote:
> Sorry if this is a little OT, but I thought it might be an appropriate 
> question for this audience...
> 
> Has anyone had much experience with RS232 (serial) <-> Ethernet  adapters? 
> Or what do you use to remotely manage a Linux server?
> 
> I'm looking for something inexpensive that will give me remote access to 
> the  serial port  and hopefully the capability to manually reboot the 
> machine (e.g. push the reset button).
> 
> I've recently seen how GRUB and the Linux console can be directed to a 
> serial port,  and I was quite impressed...
> 
> Thanks
> 
> -Alex

-- 
gentoo-security@g.o mailing list