Normally my lab environments are primarily made up of Meraki devices so there is no need for a terminal server. However, I recently started building out a large lab environment in my home lab which was a mix of Meraki and Cisco Firewalls. I needed to be able to get to the console of two firewalls and a management server. While I could easily go into the basement and plugin a USB-Serial adapter into my Macbook and connect to each device individually, it wasn’t exactly convenient. I also needed to make the console for each of these devices available to remote administrators. My initial reaction was to hit up Amazon…