There have been some good cheap Terminal Servers on Ebay lately, I bought a
pair of Baynetworks 8port terminal servers for $59. Tons of Decservers on
Ebay too.
Curt
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Turnbull" <pete_at_dunnington.u-net.com>
To: <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 5:31 PM
Subject: Re: Putting PDP11/44 on the net...?
> On Nov 12, 14:42, John Lawson wrote:
> >
> > Since I'm (mostly to very dumb) when it comes to these things - I
would
> > like to ask for opinions/advice/recommendations from the List on what
the
> > best way would be to attach one of the terminal ports on the machine to
> > the Net, to allow folks to telnet in and play with the system remotely.
> >
> > I was thinking phone-line -> modem-> Net-to-serial-box-> 11/44 port.
>
> Do you have some sort of "always-on" connection from the your local
network
> to the Internet? Or do you use dialup?
>
> The easiest way is to use a terminal server box:
>
> net -> terminal server -> 11/44 port
>
> A suitable terminal server might be smething like a Shivaport (recent
hence
> moderately expensive), an old Emulex Performance 4000 or Performance 2000
> (if you can find a cheap one that's not died), a Racal Interlan, a
Xylogics
> Annex, or any of several other possible brands that you might pick up
> secondhand. Not Windows Terminal Services or the LTSP (Linux Terminal
> Server Project), though -- they're for thin clients for Windows/Unix.
>
> DEC used to make a suitable box themselves.
>
> Although they're called "terminal servers", most -- including all the ones
> I've mentioned -- can be configured so you telnet in to them and make a
> serial connection out to one of the serial ports, which looks to the
> machine it's connected to as if a serial terminal has connected to it. On
> many of them, the serial port you connect to can be automatically chosen
> according to the port number you use in the telnet command (eg telnet
> tsrv01 3003 might be used to establish a connection to whatever's on
serial
> port 3 of tsrv01).
>
> We use several of them to get remote access to the console serial lines of
> key switches and routers across campus, and I have a couple at home which
> allow my Unix machine to connect to the serial ports on various machines,
> including a couple of PDP-11s.
>
> --
> Pete Peter Turnbull
> Network Manager
> University of York
Received on Tue Nov 12 2002 - 17:26:00 GMT