21 Nov
2003
21 Nov
'03
10:40 a.m.
On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Bruce Lane wrote:
That's one way to do it. However, a
terminal server usually works in the reverse direction -- as in allowing one to telnet,
over TCP/IP, to a serial device.
Pretty much every terminal server I have seen the
past years can do
some form of "reverse telnet", or "reverse LAT", which is what the
"console-serving mode" is about. You sure as hell don't need
stat muxes for that.
Of course, it becomes more fun when you grab a bunch of terms, conn
them to a term server, conn the term server to a router (over ethernet),
then conn the router serial port to a statmux (muxed with a raw serial
term session, for example ;-) and then connect up to the otehr side :)
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