Re: Dumbterminal on network
Quoting Robert Rati (ratirh@cs.purdue.edu):
> I wish I had a Cisco router. My router is just going to be a 386 PS/2 or
> a P166 depending on if I can get the 386 PS/2 to work. I need to find a
> way to jack the dumbterminal into that router. :)
I'm not sure I fully understand what you're trying to do here, but
youcan login to a linux box with a terminal just by connecting it
to a serial port and running a getty on that line with /etc/inittab.
See the T0 and T1 lines in your own inittab for an example.
Obviously you then have to login to telnet out, and you don't tell
us why you don't want to do that. I would have thought it's more
secure to have to login. (Just like not putting it into
/etc/securetty.)
I don't understand what you mean about connecting serial ports
together. I shouldn't do that in any hardware sense.
Then you say you want to have a console on the terminal. If you
look at Documentation/serial-console.txt in the 2.2 kernel sources,
that seems to be about what you want.
I can't foresee any reason why a terminal shouldn't do both jobs
at the same time - after all, console messages emerge from VCs
as a matter of course while you're using them for other things.
But that's a software convergence, not hardware.
Cheers,
> On Thu, 13 May 1999, Kevin Lee wrote:
>
> > If it is a cisco router you will see a RJ45 console port on the back of it.
> > The 7000, 7500 series if I remember correctly will have a RS-232. This is
> > actually a serial connection that runs a 9600 baud, 8 data bits, 1 stop
> > bit, and no parity. Cisco also supplies an adapter for the serial
> > connection between a terminal or pc and the RJ45. While in console mode
> > you can telnet directly out to another host. The command is: telnet
> > xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx or telnet <hostname> if you have dns set up on the router.
> > By attaching the dumb terminal to the router's console port you will not
> > need to assign an IP address.
> >
> > At 10:00 AM 5/13/99 -0500, you wrote:
> > >I'm creating a network in my home and have a dumb terminal I'm not sure
> > >hwo to network. I want to make it able to login to the router I have and
> > >telnet out. What would be best would be a straight telnet machine without
> > >logining into the router, but I don't think that is possible. All it has
> > >on it is a serial port and no way to assign it an IP. I'm guessing I can
> > >just make this another terminal screen on the router, but I'm not quite
> > >sure how to do this. I should be able to connect the two serial ports
> > >together and tell the router to put a console to that com port, right? Or
> > >any I way off? How would I go about adding this dumb terminal to the
> > >network? Any help would be preciated. Thanks.
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