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From: BILLW@mathom.cisco.com (WilliamChops Westfield)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.sys.cisco
Subject: Re: terminal server -- initial display
Message-ID: <29099@boulder.Colorado.EDU>
Date: 2 Nov 90 05:51:17 GMT
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    People here have asked me to see if it is possible to create a menu of
    host machines that would appear as an initial display after someone
    connects to the cisco terminal server.  Looking through the manual
    leads me to believe that it can't be done.  True??


Well, it can be done, sort of.  What you do is put the menu in either
the vacant-message (for permanantly connected lines) or the banner
(for all lines) (it doesn't quite work if you do both).  Then you
define hostnames that match your menu selection.  On hardwired lines,
set 'no activation character', which lets the first character typed
by a user be part of the host name.  An example:

ip host A 131.108.1.1
ip host B 131.108.1.2
ip host C 131.108.1.3
!
line 1 20
no activation-character
vacant-mesage /Welcome to the library system computers

	A	Arts Library
	B	Biology Library
	C	Chemistry Library

/
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