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Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 12:47:48 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: "Eric C. S. Dynamic" <ecsd@transbay.net>
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Subject: Re: Simple terminal-thru-ethernet multiplexer?
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The reprint address on the cc: is fishy.  A client of yours?

On Tue, 3 Feb 1998, Eric C. S. Dynamic wrote:

> I'm looking for something that can let me access a remote tty.
> 
> Application is, local machine wants to control N terminals at
> a remote location via ethernet; unix machines at both ends.

Let me make sure I have this straight:

tty
    \
tty - Remote UNIX box  ------ ethernet ------- local UNIX box
    /
tty

And you want to see the tty's from the local box.  Correct?

> 
> Say I have a multiport card on remote machine, I'd like to
> be able to port all the remote terminal traffic back and
> re-present that traffic locally as if the local machine
> had those ports on it.

Sounds like a job for screen.  Screen allows you to run multiple sessions
on a single terminal, so you run your favorite term program to watch all
the tty's, and detach those sessions, so you can hop between each tty and
interact as needed.

Am I on the right track?

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major