I have a need to access a remote Soekris in two ways. First a console login for admin purposes and secondly for a DBA to use RDP to access SQLserver on a win 2k3 behind the firewall.
On the face of it I could log in as Rod and have shell access, even reboot viewing. Good! Love that. Then DBA could log in as ppp with pppd (suitably configured) as his shell. The pppd man pages gives an example. My question is: Will this be a relaible set-up for both purposes? Usually we have the console port running 9600 no handshakes. I'll bet RDP looks very sad on that setting. The 4801 docs say that we should use a terminal set at 19200N81 with no flow control. I know we can change the speed - I always set it to 9600 just to match the OpenBSD default. What the docs don't say is whether handshaking works in initial console access or after boot or both. I can graft away and do lots of research (and may have to) but wise explorers seem to ask if anyone else has been along this ridge before, so I'm trying to be wise. I'd rather be told that I'm a twit who missed something in my googling/archive searching before, rather than after, doing a lot of grunt that leads nowhere. Thank you, Rod. In the beginning was The Word and The Word was Content-type: text/plain The Word of Rod. Do NOT CC me - I am subscribed to the list. Replies to the sender address will fail except from the list-server.
