On a related subject, I have been trying to set up a box that i can ssh to, that will then allow me to connect over serial to a boot console on several different machines. I have a RocketPort PCI card from comtrol, and a dumb black box that connects to this card, and has 16 rj-45 ports on it. I use that, and rj-45 to db-9 converters attatched to the serial port on box1, box2, box3, ... box16 (all redhat6.2 and 7.0). My objective is clear, my method is not clear (to me) I need to be able to ssh to this PC with 16port black box that attatches to RocketPort and use minicom (or something similar) and get a conolse connection to the other boxes when something flakes out. Buffering of the screen is nice too. A while back, i got it setup so i could echo back and forth from one box to the other, and then i was able to direct the login prompt at the console over serail (at the price of not having the console be my monitor) but I wouldnt take anyting for input. Any ideas? I believe that this shouldnt be difficlut, nor everly complex. We are trying to implement this over a 5-10K box from clearview or someone like that. I have read the HOW-TO from LDP, and searched around for quite a bit on google and deja (at least when deja was deja and not google) I have tried adding lines such as these to my inittab: (only one at a time fo course) 7:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty ttyS0 -r 9600 S0:12345:respawn:/sbin/getty ttyS0 DT9600 vt100 S1:12345:respawn:/sbin/getty ttyS1 DT9600 vt100 7:2345:respawn:/sbin/mgetty -r ttyS0 The device ships with some diagnostice to test the install, and that passes. I have even had to build cables with different pinouts to get it to work for our cisco devices. I think the core of my problem lays at the linux level, not the device. I dont feel like i have the system set up to do console over serial port... thanks again. duncan On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Tom Hudak wrote: > On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 01:01:52PM -0600, Dave Sherman wrote: > >Hello all, > > > >I know there is a way to set up a serial-port terminal connection to > >another device (Cisco router in this case), just like Hyperterm for > >Windows. Unfortunately, I am having trouble finding instructions on how > >to do it. Can someone here point me in the right direction? > Console over serial, make sure you have either a straight through or x-over > serial cable (tx,rx,gnd are all the pin's needed unless you want > flow-control/CD stuff...), and kermit and you should be all good. > Thanks, > -- || || || || || || duncan shannon .-. duncan at sodatrain.com /v\ // \\ /( )\ L I N U X ^^-^^ >Phear the Penguin<