Re: serial port usage

2007-09-20 Thread Craig Skinner
Craig Skinner wrote: Darren Spruell wrote: For the scenario where you have two openbsd hosts, one connected to the second with a serial null modem cable, what is the right device to use when connecting using tip(1) from the first to a console on the second? [snip] Then, on either box, I

Re: serial port usage

2007-09-15 Thread Henning Brauer
* Stuart Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-09-14 21:39]: USB - the number of boxes I've had to disable USB on to stabilise, this would not usually be my first choice. ymmv, as they say (-: wtf? out of the about 180 i control i don't have a simgle one with usb disabled... -- Henning Brauer,

Re: serial port usage

2007-09-15 Thread Henning Brauer
* L. V. Lammert [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-09-14 18:33]: At 12:00 PM 9/14/2007 -0400, Trash Compactor wrote: Alternatively, you can put puc(4) cards into an OpenBSD box or hook up a tangle of ucom(4) adapters to a tree of powered USB hubs There are several multi-port USB-serial adapters

Re: serial port usage

2007-09-14 Thread Jason McIntyre
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 09:40:44AM +0200, Raimo Niskanen wrote: Can someone clarify the difference between /dev/tty00 and /dev/cua00? to some extent these are documented in tty(4). jmc

Re: serial port usage

2007-09-14 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2007/09/14 09:40, Raimo Niskanen wrote: But for local non-modem connect you want to use tip tty00 that uses /dev/tty00, direct connect, no phone number. I use cu -l cua00. Can someone clarify the difference between /dev/tty00 and /dev/cua00? tty(4) explains all.

Re: serial port usage

2007-09-14 Thread Henning Brauer
* Daniel Ouellet [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-09-14 07:02]: As we are on the subject and I do not want to deviate from the original question, I would however appreciate suggestions as to how I can have a one server witch can actually have up to 32 serial console to control LOM on Sun server. I

Re: serial port usage

2007-09-14 Thread Craig Skinner
Darren Spruell wrote: For the scenario where you have two openbsd hosts, one connected to the second with a serial null modem cable, what is the right device to use when connecting using tip(1) from the first to a console on the second? This works very well for me on i386; 2 null modem

Re: serial port usage

2007-09-14 Thread Craig Skinner
Henning Brauer wrote: there are multiport usb-serial adapters. and of course you can use multiple of them. This may be really really stupid, but for Mac minis that have no serial ports listed in their dmesg (e.g: http://erdelynet.com/tech/openbsd/openbsd-on-intel-mac-mini/) could you use

Re: serial port usage

2007-09-14 Thread Paul de Weerd
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 11:16:46AM +0100, Craig Skinner wrote: | Henning Brauer wrote: | there are multiport usb-serial adapters. and of course you can use | multiple of them. | | | This may be really really stupid, but for Mac minis that have no serial | ports listed in their dmesg (e.g: |

Re: serial port usage

2007-09-14 Thread Craig Skinner
Paul de Weerd wrote: I'm afraid not. It must be a real serial port, supported by the BIOS and all that stuff. You can run a getty on a USB-serial adapter, but console must be the real thing. That makes perfect sense with the BIOS, thanks!

Re: : serial port usage

2007-09-14 Thread Raimo Niskanen
Thank you! On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 09:05:06AM +0100, Jason McIntyre wrote: On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 09:40:44AM +0200, Raimo Niskanen wrote: Can someone clarify the difference between /dev/tty00 and /dev/cua00? to some extent these are documented in tty(4). jmc -- / Raimo Niskanen,

Re: serial port usage

2007-09-14 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Daniel Ouellet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As we are on the subject and I do not want to deviate from the original question, I would however appreciate suggestions as to how I can have a one server witch can actually have up to 32 serial console to control LOM on Sun server. I may need up to

Re: serial port usage

2007-09-14 Thread Trash Compactor
Christian Weisgerber wrote: Daniel Ouellet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As we are on the subject and I do not want to deviate from the original question, I would however appreciate suggestions as to how I can have a one server witch can actually have up to 32 serial console to control LOM on

Re: serial port usage

2007-09-14 Thread L. V. Lammert
At 12:00 PM 9/14/2007 -0400, Trash Compactor wrote: Alternatively, you can put puc(4) cards into an OpenBSD box or hook up a tangle of ucom(4) adapters to a tree of powered USB hubs There are several multi-port USB-serial adapters available. You can get bus-powered ones up to around 8 DB9

Re: serial port usage

2007-09-14 Thread Greg Thomas
On 9/14/07, Craig Skinner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Darren Spruell wrote: For the scenario where you have two openbsd hosts, one connected to the second with a serial null modem cable, what is the right device to use when connecting using tip(1) from the first to a console on the second?

Re: serial port usage

2007-09-14 Thread Greg Thomas
On 9/14/07, Trash Compactor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greg Thomas wrote: On 9/14/07, Craig Skinner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Darren Spruell wrote: For the scenario where you have two openbsd hosts, one connected to the second with a serial null modem cable, what is the right device to

Re: serial port usage

2007-09-14 Thread Trash Compactor
L. V. Lammert wrote: At 12:00 PM 9/14/2007 -0400, Trash Compactor wrote: Alternatively, you can put puc(4) cards into an OpenBSD box or hook up a tangle of ucom(4) adapters to a tree of powered USB hubs There are several multi-port USB-serial adapters available. You can get bus-powered ones

Re: serial port usage

2007-09-14 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2007/09/14 13:48, Trash Compactor wrote: L. V. Lammert wrote: At 12:00 PM 9/14/2007 -0400, Trash Compactor wrote: Alternatively, you can put puc(4) cards into an OpenBSD box or hook up a tangle of ucom(4) adapters to a tree of powered USB hubs There are several multi-port USB-serial

Re: serial port usage

2007-09-14 Thread Craig Skinner
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 10:03:00AM -0700, Greg Thomas wrote: $ sudo tip tty01 Is this just for boot messages? It's my understanding (minimal, at that) that you can't do this for logins both directions because getty will tie up the port? Nope, full access as connecting from tty01 on one

serial port usage

2007-09-13 Thread Darren Spruell
For the scenario where you have two openbsd hosts, one connected to the second with a serial null modem cable, what is the right device to use when connecting using tip(1) from the first to a console on the second? These suggest that cua is the right device to use:

Re: serial port usage

2007-09-13 Thread Nick Holland
Darren Spruell wrote: ... If cua00 is the right device to use when connecting out, why the missing phone number error? That means your /etc/remote file is still at its defaults (which perhaps should change): tty00|For hp300,i386,mac68k,macppc,mvmeppc,vax:\

Re: serial port usage

2007-09-13 Thread Daniel Ouellet
As we are on the subject and I do not want to deviate from the original question, I would however appreciate suggestions as to how I can have a one server witch can actually have up to 32 serial console to control LOM on Sun server. I may need up to 48 in one case, but instead of using a bunch