15 Jul
2011
15 Jul
'11
11:39 p.m.
On Fri, 2011-07-15 at 23:10 +0200, Jochen Kunz wrote:
On Fri, 15 Jul 2011 15:27:14 -0400
Brian Wheeler <bdwheele at indiana.edu> wrote:
We had a western telematic console server that did that. I really hate
that I didn't grab it before it was sent to surplus :(
I bought a xyplex 1800 from the vcf midwest a few years ago (when it was
at purdue) that I was going to use to replace the ds200 but alas, it has
a bad power supply and shocked the bejeezus out of me when I touched the
top of one of the capacitors to see if it was hot...I guess it was hot
in a way different from what I was expecting :)
What is everyone else doing for this?
I
use an old 8-port terminal server that supports TCP/IP out of its own
EPROMs. It can be configured for "reverse telnet". I.e. you
$ telnet octopus 2003
and get a connection to port #3 of the terminal server. It even
understands a telnet-break command and turns it into a serial break.
I think most of the later DEC terminal servers can do this as well.
At least some variants of the DECserver 700 and 90.