dopp at acm.cs.umn.edu wrote:
> 
> scud:gabe {85} uptime
>  3:45PM  up 526 days,  1:13, 4 users, load averages: 0.33, 0.14, 0.10
> 
> It's an OpenBSD machine we use as a terminal server, but that's still a
> helluva uptime :)

Do you mean `terminal server' in the sense of connecting the serial ports
of various servers up to one box so that you can control their consoles? 
I've been considering setting up something like that for where I work,
since we have a bunch of systems that really shouldn't need to have
monitors, keyboards, and mice connected to them.  If they were all PCs,
I'd just get a KVM switch, but we have a mix of PCs and Suns (and, coming
soon, an HP/UX box).

Have many people set things up like this?  Does it work very well?  What's
some good (and hopefully relatively inexpensive) hardware for the job?

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