From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 3 8:12: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from yertle.kciLink.com (yertle.kcilink.com [216.194.193.105]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCF0737B401 for ; Wed, 3 Oct 2001 08:12:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from onceler.kciLink.com (onceler.kciLink.com [216.194.193.106]) by yertle.kciLink.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04C542E462 for ; Wed, 3 Oct 2001 11:12:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from khera@localhost) by onceler.kciLink.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f93FC0f32572; Wed, 3 Oct 2001 11:12:00 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from khera@kcilink.com) X-Authentication-Warning: onceler.kciLink.com: khera set sender to khera@kcilink.com using -f To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Serial consoles References: <30300.1001949859@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> From: Vivek Khera Date: 03 Oct 2001 11:12:00 -0400 In-Reply-To: <30300.1001949859@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> Message-ID: Lines: 23 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> "SH" == Sheldon Hearn writes: SH> Ideally, I'd like to "cross-wire" the boxes. Can the serial port SH> configured for use as serial console / kgdb access port also be used SH> with tip or similar to provide access to the serial console of the box SH> on the other end of the serial cable? Put them in a cycle, unless you only have one serial port per box. With two ports per box, make the first port the console, and the second one connects to the box above it. The top box connects to the bottom box. Much easier is to get a terminal server like the Cyclades TS1000, which provides a nice secure no-moving-parts machine with which to access your serial ports. I have mine set up to require SSH connection to a specific user name which is passed through to the serial port for the proper server. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Vivek Khera, Ph.D. Khera Communications, Inc. Internet: khera@kciLink.com Rockville, MD +1-240-453-8497 AIM: vivekkhera Y!: vivek_khera http://www.khera.org/~vivek/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message