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Date:      Wed, 07 Jan 1998 21:35:16
From:      "M. Monninger" <markem@primenet.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Serial Console?
Message-ID:  <3.0.5.32.19980107213516.00998970@pop.primenet.com>

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I want to run my gateway box headless (no keyboard or monitor) using a
vt100 emulator on a PC via a null-modem cable for a serial console. How
should the port (ttyd0) be configured, i.e. should I run a getty on it?
Which gettytab entry? What do I have to specify so that console messages be
directed to it?

I looked thru the handbook & FAQ but didn't see anything specific to this
application.

FWIW, it's an 8M 486DX-33 box (running 2.2.5) built out of extra
(obsolete?) bits I had laying around. All I'm using it for is to run natd
between my dsl line and my four-node home lan. It works great.

Many thanks...

Mark



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