From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Nov 13 13:58:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.amigo.net (smtp.amigo.net [209.94.64.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6334437B479 for ; Mon, 13 Nov 2000 13:58:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from [209.94.67.250] by smtp.amigo.net (Post.Office MTA Undefined release Undefined ID# 0-0U10L2S100) with SMTP id AAA9483; Mon, 13 Nov 2000 14:58:58 -0700 Message-ID: <3A10643B.6050801@amigo.net> Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 14:59:23 -0700 From: Randy Smith Organization: Amigo.Net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.1.1-STABLE i386; en-US; m17) Gecko/20000808 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brian Reichert Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Remote console into FreeBSD 4.1.1 boxen References: <3A1056F3.70207@amigo.net> <20001113161159.H4722@numachi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Brian Reichert wrote: > On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 02:02:43PM -0700, Randy Smith wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I would like to be able to log in to box via a serial port or the like > > to get 'console' access to the box remotely. I have several servers > > (web, mail ,etc.) co-located with my backbone provider and it really > > sucks to have to drive three hours up there just to do a fsck and the > > like. I've read the sections of the Handbook that discuss doing this > > with the serial ports but I havn't been able to get it to work. I can > > watch FreeBSD bootup but it doesn't give me a login prompt. > > > > My questions are: > > 1) Is it possible to log in to a FreeBSD 4.1.1 (or higher) through a > > serial port? > > Yes. > > Do you have getty running on ttyd0? No, apperently not. I somehow missed that section when I went through the Handbook. Do you know what the type field should be to talk to the PM2? > Do you have a fully cabled serial cable? If not, then DCD may not > be there; you'd have to use cuaa0 instead. > > Do you kave a keyboard also plugged in? If so, you'll have to take > steps for the kernel at boot time to direct the console to the > serial port, as it won't happen magically. > > > 2) If so, has anyone setup a Lucent PM2 or other box (FreeBSD or > > whatever) to console into multiple boxes? (I ask about the PM2 because I > > just happen to have one lying around.) > > Yes. And Cisco units. Cool. It there a good tutorial around to do that with a PM2? > > Well. That was easy. ;) > Thanks for the help. -- Randy Smith Amigo.Net Webmaster 719-589-6100 ext. 113 http://www.amigo.net/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message