14 Dec
2009
14 Dec
'09
11:33 p.m.
On Dec 14, 2009, at 10:44 PM, Curtis H. Wilbar Jr. wrote:
This is correct...in.pmd was to make PM2E ports appear as /dev
nodes on SunOS machines. There was no additional software to install
on the terminal server itself. I don't think there were any
additional or optional packages that got installed on the PM2E, just
the normal firmware load, and that supported "reverse mode" out of
the box.
The Portmasters were nice little boxes. I deployed dozens upon
dozens of them in the early 1990s to create huge dialin modem pools.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
Side note: I
remember reading somewhere that the old PortMaster
2e's could be used as a "reverse terminal server" (that is, telnet
into the box and connect to a particular serial port for console
access) with some optional software. Anybody done that?
Replies can be off-list, I'm not sure how relevant this is.. other
than, it would be handy to use to provide access to some old
serial-driven gear.
I don't recall any optional software to do this.... I setup PM2Es
so that telnet to a
specific port would connect me to a specific serial port. Even
added logins that
would connect.... so telnet to the pm2e, login as a particular user/
password and
hit a specific port.
There was software that you could load on SunOS (for instance) that
would make
the serial ports available as if they were 'local' to the
workstation.... but I never
remember encountering any special PM2E software that you put on the
PM2E
itself.