On Feb 23, 2012, at 7:45 AM, Henning Brauer wrote: > * Dewey Hylton <dewey.hyl...@gmail.com> [2012-02-23 15:21]: >> i used the digi equipment over a decade ago with both hpux and aix with success. i'd really like to access these from my openbsd workstation and laptop, though the documentation mentions support for just about everything other than bsd. >> are any of these usable with bsd? and by that i mean can openbsd connect to the serial ports via ethernet with cu or something similar? > > i dunno the digi stuff, but console servers usually provide access to > the serial ports via telnet or ssh. in general you don't wanna expose > these to the 'net, but it's good enough for a seperate vlan or the > like to an openbsd box that you either run conserver on or just use to > jump through.
I just hooked up a Digi TS4 to my Alix 2D13 so I can do some upgrades (in case I pooch it and need a console; they're pretty cheap on ebay (I actually bought a TS2 but got a TS4)). Have another one hooked up to a Sun as well. But that's incoming, not outgoing. If you want the device's serial port to appear as a serial port on an OpenBSD box (i.e., /dev/...) you'll need some sort of driver. Probably not THAT hard, but. . . why? You can just SSH or Telnet to a port on the server, and you're talking to the serial port. Unless you have an app that expects a serial port device, there's no issue. Sean [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pkcs7-signature which had a name of smime.p7s]
