Need recommendations on a terminal server setup
Gordon JC Pearce
gordonjcp at gjcp.net
Fri Nov 18 15:48:19 CST 2005
Wolfe, Julian wrote:
> Alright,
>
> I'm getting ready to make my 11/23+ available online for people to play
> with, but I'm a bit stumped as far as how I should attach the serial lines
> to my Ethernet network.
Haha, that's just the problem I ran up against :-/
> Now, I have a Sun server running Solaris 10 which I was able to connect a
> couple serial lines to and then tunneled that through a telnet port, but I'd
> rather not do that...with the setup I'm thinking of, we're talking about a
> whole lot of cable running into that box.
Yup, I had two lines although that was only one cat5 cable
> Does anyone here have suggestions on what I should use for a terminal
> server? If I could just mount a DECserver box in my PDP-11 chassis that
> would be great, but isn't the Ethernet port DECnet-only?
I'm eventually going to get back to writing a serial port-to-ssh port
program. Haven't done it yet though.
Gordon.
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