From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 7 23: 9:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from jason.argos.org (a1-3a105.neo.rr.com [24.93.180.105]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52ECA37B422 for ; Thu, 7 Sep 2000 23:09:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (mike@localhost) by jason.argos.org (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id e8864qL06245; Fri, 8 Sep 2000 02:04:52 -0400 Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2000 02:04:52 -0400 (EDT) From: Mike Nowlin To: John Brann Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [john: tty behaviour] In-Reply-To: <20000907095254.A52345@freebie.brann.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I sent this to questions a couple of weeks ago, but didn't receive any > helpful replies. Anyone doing this - two machines connected by a null-modem > cable with the ability to create a serial terminal session from either > side, with suitable juggling of getty processes? Used to do this in Linux w/o any problems... Just make sure that each side waits for CD to go high before actively "starting" the getty process, and that DTR is NOT asserted while the lines are idle. Kick up kermit (or whatever) on the box 1, and the DTR signal from box 1 goes to CD of box 2 - box 2 sends a login prompt, and life is good. (If memory's working, I had to beat up getty a bit to keep DTR low when it was idle, but that wasn't too difficult - one ioctl at the appropriate place... If I remember, I'll look at this a little more carefully when I'm not so fried.) mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message