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Another alternative to headless machines...

Author: Philip
Date: 18-12-01 21:02

I have a bunch of headless servers. What I did was hook one of them up with a monitor keyboard and then configure all the others to use the serial port as the console. Then just run a bunch of null modem serial cables from each machine to the one with the monitor/keyboard. When I want to get on the console of one I just swap cables around...

works pretty well for me.

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