[Beowulf] Re: multiport RS232 to ethernet (or USB)

[Warren Turkal]

On Friday 07 April 2006 00:05, Chris wrote:
> As a student hiding in the corners and under the stairs on this list i was
> wondering why you guys would want to be connecting things to your marvelous
> clusters with RS-232 type ports. i mean there's many other ways to
> interface right? So what'cha plugging into these contraptions?

I am thinking they are probably using serial terminals for monitoring or 
something like that.

wt
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Warren Turkal, Research Associate III/Systems Administrator
Colorado State University, Dept. of Atmospheric Science