Digi TS8 serial console server funkiness

2012-03-07 Thread ML
Hopefully someone here has wrestled with serial server oddities and can shed some light on this... I've got a serial console server made by Digi (TS8 PortServer) setup in a fairly vanilla mode: 9600-8-N-1telnet to port 500X gets you to port X. Setup for a vt100 terminal type. Other VTs

RE: Digi TS8 serial console server funkiness

2012-03-07 Thread George Bonser
-Original Message- From: ML [mailto:m...@kenweb.org] Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2012 5:32 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Digi TS8 serial console server funkiness Problem is when attached to a Cisco switch I had laying around I get seemily random garble output when accessing

RE: Digi TS8 serial console server funkiness

2012-03-07 Thread George Bonser
Other issues I've noticed..cannot use arrow keys to search command buffer. This is going to be a tougher one. Might be a difference in character encoding. Here is the VT100 spec: http://www.handshake.de/infobase/dfue/prgrmmer/t322.htm * ESC D cursor down - at bottom of