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Looking for opinion on Perle CS9000
ghub005 at xtra
Nov 14, 2002, 5:40 PM
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Hi Lads

I've been looking for a good quality console server for the server farm (zoo?) in my office and I've just been
offered a used 24-port Perle CS9000 for ~300USD plus shipping. It was pulled from a dead ISP and saw about two weeks use in the rack before decomissioning.

Has anyone used one of these? Anyone have a strong opinion on them? Can you safely expose them to an unprotected external network interface?

I want enable external connections to HP 9000, Sun, SGI, RS/6000, Compaq/DEC alpha, and Cisco hardware.

Regards,

Gavin
Re: Looking for opinion on Perle CS9000 [ In reply to ]
aaron at osdl
Nov 14, 2002, 6:19 PM
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On Fri, 15 Nov 2002 ghub005@xtra.co.nz wrote:

> Hi Lads
>
> I've been looking for a good quality console server for the server
> farm (zoo?) in my office and I've just been offered a used 24-port
> Perle CS9000 for ~300USD plus shipping. It was pulled from a dead ISP
> and saw about two weeks use in the rack before decomissioning.
>
> Has anyone used one of these? Anyone have a strong opinion on them?

Well, after using two for a year, we just bought six more of 'em to mostly
replace our Computone RAS2000s.

> Can you safely expose them to an unprotected external network
> interface?

I dunno. But they have dandy SSH support and authentication.

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