From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Nov 13 13: 2:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from smtp2.amigo.net (smtp2.amigo.net [209.94.64.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A6E637B479 for ; Mon, 13 Nov 2000 13:02:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from amigo.net ([209.94.67.250]) by smtp2.amigo.net (Post.Office MTA v3.1 release PO205b ID# 0-39855U5000L500S0) with ESMTP id AAA8125 for ; Mon, 13 Nov 2000 14:02:16 -0700 Message-ID: <3A1056F3.70207@amigo.net> Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 14:02:43 -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: freebsd-isp Subject: Remote console into FreeBSD 4.1.1 boxen 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 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? 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.) Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks, -- 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