Paul Davis wrote:
> 
> Sounds like they want to access the local zone's console directly from a 
> terminal server? I don't believe there is a concept of that in the zones 
> model (of course, the local zone's console is normally started with 
> "zlogin -C zonename" from the global zone).

Sure sounds like they have a bunch of serial-attach devices that they 
multiplex onto the network using a terminal concentrator and demultiplex 
in software at the computer, and they want to make some or all of those 
serial connections available to applications running in local zones.

> Christine Tran wrote:
>> Jerry Jelinek wrote:
>>   
>>> Christine Tran wrote:
>>>     
>>>> A customer is unable to share something called the "terminal server 
>>>> ports" to non-global zone.  I don't know what these are, but here's 
>>>> the description:
>>>>
>>>> "Serial sensor interfaces are fed to a patch panel and then received 
>>>> by a digital terminal server.  Terminal server sends output to a 
>>>> switch, to which the host is connected.  Terminal server port driver 
>>>> installs in global zone, creates /dev/dty/tt1, /dev/tty/tt2 ..."
>>>>
>>>> He tried adding the device by "set match = /dev/dty/*" but the device 
>>>> does not appear in the non-global zone.
>>>>
>>>> Any thoughts?
>>>>       
>>> Is it /dev/dty or /dev/tty?  The example shows both.  What version are
>>> they running?  There is a known bug with wildcard matching in u4:
>>>
>>> 6632938 zonecfg fnmatch device matching interface seems to be broken
>>>
>>>     
>>
>> Sorry, that's /dev/dty/* not /dev/tty/*, my typo.
>>
>> And thanks for the bug, this may be it.
>>
>> CT
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