On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, duncan wrote: > On a related subject, I have been trying to set up a box that i can ssh > to, that will then allow me to connect over serial to a boot console on > several different machines. > > I have a RocketPort PCI card from comtrol, and a dumb black box that > connects to this card, and has 16 rj-45 ports on it. I use that, and > rj-45 to db-9 converters attatched to the serial port on box1, box2, box3, > ... box16 (all redhat6.2 and 7.0). > > My objective is clear, my method is not clear (to me) > > I need to be able to ssh to this PC with 16port black box that attatches > to RocketPort and use minicom (or something similar) and get a conolse > connection to the other boxes when something flakes out. Buffering of the just set up a bunch of minicom sessions, each defining which serial port it uses, and name them according to the name of the remote device. then, ssh in, and run: minicom name_of_device and you've got a serial console. :) getty is used to allow a remote machine (ie, console) to log in to the linux box. not what you want.. -- Nate Carlson <natecars at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 http://www.real-time.com | Fax : (952)943-8500