Hi Ali! On Sat, 2022-07-30 22:23:04 -0700, Ali via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > I am looking for some advice and recommendations on how to best go about > accomplishing the following: > > I have recently come into possession of an actual physical terminal that can > be connected to a device via a standard RS232 (serial) port, so far so good.
So there's two things. First, you need to get your devices connected somewhere (ie. servers, switches, whatever talks serial.) That can be done by anything with a number of serial ports (ie. using USB-serial adapters and some rfc2217 software. That will provide the "server" part so you could use telnet (or, even better, a rfc2217-aware terminal client) to connect to your serial console ports. Now there's the (physical) terminal you want to use. If you roll your own (USB-serial adapters), I *think* (never tried it) you'd be able to use `socat` to act as a TELNET/rfc2217 client on one side and relay that data to a serial port (where you can attach your glass terminal.) I don't know if rfc2217 is finally there in socat, but there were patches flying around (ie. http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/contrib/socat-rfc2217.html). MfG, JBG --
