From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Nov 13 19:46:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1.sentex.ca (smtp1.sentex.ca [199.212.134.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80C8537B479 for ; Mon, 13 Nov 2000 19:46:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from chimp.simianscience.com (cage.simianscience.com [64.7.134.1]) by smtp1.sentex.ca (8.11.0/8.11.0) with SMTP id eAE3kIx35144; Mon, 13 Nov 2000 22:46:19 -0500 (EST) From: Mike Tancsa To: randys@amigo.net (Randy Smith) Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Remote console into FreeBSD 4.1.1 boxen Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 22:46:18 -0500 Message-ID: References: In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 13 Nov 2000 16:02:37 -0500, in sentex.lists.freebsd.isp you wrote: >My questions are: >1) Is it possible to log in to a FreeBSD 4.1.1 (or higher) through a=20 >serial port? Yes. You have done the "hard part" ie. where most people mess up. Make = sure you have=20 ttyd0 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" dialup on secure=20 instead of=20 ttyd0 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" dialup off secure=20 kill -1 1 when you make the change. >2) If so, has anyone setup a Lucent PM2 or other box (FreeBSD or=20 >whatever) to console into multiple boxes? (I ask about the PM2 because I= =20 >just happen to have one lying around.) Have not tried it myself, but there is no reason why it should not work. ---Mike Mike Tancsa (mdtancsa@sentex.net) =09 Sentex Communications Corp, =09 Waterloo, Ontario, Canada "Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers=20 could setup a national IP network." (KDW2) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message