[SunRescue] Xyplex MAXserver 1608 Terminal Servers

[Jeff Workman]

Stoned koala bears drooled eucalyptus spit in awe as John Duksta exclaimed:

> One hitch with them, tho'. If you're going to be using them
> for console access to your Sun boxen, make sure that you change
> the 'break' character to something other than break. Like most
> terminal servers, when you kill/lose power to it, as the serial
> controller chip powers down, it can often send a break which
> will halt your Sun.

Anybody have any idea how to do this?  For this is *exactly* my intended 
purpose.

> Also, you're going to learn to hate that DEC-like command syntax:
> "set port 2 flow-control rts-cts on"

Yes!  The CLI is HORRID!!  I suppose these things were made back before 
everybody had decided to make their syntax "IOS-like."[1]  Even if they had 
a syntax similar to Livingston PortMasters it would be a vast improvement. 
The ULI doesn't seem to be very Unix-like, either, with maybe the exception 
of "ifconfig -a."

Maybe somebody will port NetBSD to one of these things.  I mean,  what is 
it that they say "Of course it runs NetBSD!"


Jeff

[1]  Which, isn't a bad idea, for all of my complaints about Cisco 
products, their CLI is probably the best of any NOS out there.




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