Annex Terminal Servers...

On Mar 26 2005, 0:21, Curt @ Atari Museum wrote: I have one at work, where it was used mainly to provide dialup access, offering both telnet and PPP. I also have one at home, where it presently connects to a couple of terminals, a couple of SGI consoles, a PDP-8, and will eventually connect a few more consoles (when I make up the cables). It has reasonable security so my eventual aim is to have it accessible from the Internet, for much the same reason you want to hook up your Vax. I wouldn't connect it to the internet until you have set up the security. my You probably don't have all the configuration set up. I have the manuals, about 9" of shelf space, and the remote management software. You don't actually need that management software, but it does make life easier. My guess is that you don't have the gateway address (and/or subnet mask) correctly set. I assume you know to use the "su" command from the CLI to the superuser prompt, then the "admin" command to get to the admin mode, and "show annex all" (etc) to see the configuration? You need that to set the subnet mask (and many other things). You don't set a default gateway like that, though. The annex uses its routing table for that, and you can either set a static route using the "route" command or by putting the route(s) you want in the "gateways" section of the config file which it loads when it boots. You can display the routes using "netstat -r" and "netstat -C". After I compiled the software, I corrected a few of the manpages and wrote a few extra ones, which I'll send you by private email. In the meantime, here's a few useful URLs: http://www25.nortelnetworks.com/library/rannex/relnotes/R10.1A-Release_Note… http://www.ofb.net/~jheiss/annex/ http://lost-contact.mit.edu/afs/net.mit.edu/project/afs32/andrew/netdev/sun…