Re: Dumbterminal on network
Quoting Robert Rati ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): 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. -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.
Dumbterminal on network
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. Rob === [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Role-Player, Babylon 5 fanatic 1998-99 Aka Khyron the Backstabber : ICQ# 2325055 Homepage: www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/ratirh Happiness comes in short spurts. Don't be fooled. ===
Re: Dumbterminal on network
Robert, 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. Kevin Lee Vulcan Industries (205) 640-2433 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.vulcanind.com 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. Rob === [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Role-Player, Babylon 5 fanatic 1998-99 Aka Khyron the Backstabber : ICQ# 2325055 Homepage: www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/ratirh Happiness comes in short spurts. Don't be fooled. === -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Dumbterminal on network
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. :) Rob On Thu, 13 May 1999, Kevin Lee wrote: Robert, 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. Kevin Lee Vulcan Industries (205) 640-2433 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.vulcanind.com 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. Rob === [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Role-Player, Babylon 5 fanatic 1998-99 Aka Khyron the Backstabber : ICQ# 2325055 Homepage: www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/ratirh Happiness comes in short spurts. Don't be fooled. === -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null === [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Role-Player, Babylon 5 fanatic 1998-99 Aka Khyron the Backstabber : ICQ# 2325055 Homepage: www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/ratirh Happiness comes in short spurts. Don't be fooled. ===
