On 7/31/22 07:23, Ali via cctalk wrote:
So I am wondering if there is a box that provides a telnet CLIENT to a serial port device? I.E. a box smart enough that handles the telnet client, LAN functions, and terminal emulations internally and then provides a text based interface through a serial port that is compatible with my physical terminal? That way my physical terminal would be connected to the RS232/LAN bridge all the time and I could connected to not only the serial ports connected to the console server but other telnet accessible services as all the heavy lifting would be done on the bridge. I am ideally looking for a ready to go, low power device, I can hide away as opposed to setting up a PC of my own running some *nix flavor that I know can do this but is way over kill. Oh yeah and if it is super cheap even better. Thanks!
I once used a DECserver200 terminal server to throw a login prompt (and subsequent login session) from a Linux host to a connected terminal. The DECserver uses the LAT protocol, not IP. I needed to change /etc/inittab to start a session not with getty, but some lat program I don't remember.
regards, chris
