Problem :
I’m searching for a hardware platform or hint for building a console server running Linux. I’d need
- 8-32 Serial Ports (DB9 or RJ54)
- Linux as OS
- 19″ chassis
I don’t really care if this is some custom hardware or a regular Console server where I can access the Linux/OS Layer (incl. building own kernels!).
Any hints?
Solution :
I would buy a 19″ inch rack case and mount a PC with a motherboard with a good number of pci-e slots, then you can buy PCI-e cards with serial ports up to a number of [available slots] * [number of serial ports per card]. If you buy hardware with well known chipsets for the serial ports any modern Linux distro will detect them and add them to the /dev dir