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- From: john@iastate.edu (John Hascall)
- Subject: Re: Console server (was: Re: Please can someone help)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.015016.24924@news.iastate.edu>
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
- References: <1992Aug25.144223.2555@bnr.co.uk> <NERUDA.92Aug26161931@hydro.mps.ohio-state.edu> <17gv2tINNd5o@early-bird.think.com>
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 01:50:16 GMT
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- barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) writes:
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- }I just downloaded this. Currently it uses serial ports on the console
- }server machine. Does anyone know of something like this that can use TCP
- }connections?
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- }We already have a Xyplex terminal server that has serial ports that can be
- }connected to the console port of various Suns. You can telnet to a TCP
- }port on the Xyplex and it passes the connection through to a corresponding
- }serial port. It would be nice if the console-server could make use of this
- }facility, instead of using serial ports directly.
-
- This shouldn't be all that difficult (make the config file parser
- recognize port@host or some such syntax as not being a tty) and then
- doing connect(), etc rather than open().
-
- I am using this program, but since we have it running on a DECstation
- I took the easy way out and got LATs so I didn't have to do any work... :-)
-
- John
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