1 Aug
2022
1 Aug
'22
9:59 a.m.
On Sun, 31 Jul 2022, Fritz Mueller wrote:
+1 for the Digi Portserver for this application. I
recently grabbed one
off eBay, because I have a number of vintage terminals here which I
would like to ?crossbar? to a number of vintage computers with serial
terminal support, and also provide both telnet out (vintage terminals
telnet to modern systems) and in (LAN or WAN terminal emulator clients
to serial ports on vintage systems). The Portserver looks like it is
going to do this job nicely.
Doesn't any terminal server do the job?
We have several different here. They all allow both terminal and host
attachment to their ports, allow connections between serial ports, between
a serial port and LAN (e.g. Telnet), in both directions (Telnet out,
Telnet in), sometimes raw connections (without Telnet negotiation). Modern
devices also implement SSH and Web Shells. The oldest device here is a
Bridge CS/100 (still running). Then we have Emulex Performance 2500 and
4000, Lantronix ETS-16, a Digi Portserver (I don't like Digi, the ports
often hang and have non-standard pinouts), Lantronix SLC, Avocent ACS
8000, ... All are capable of doing every mode of connection between serial
ports/LAN.
Christian