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From: dd@ariel.unm.edu (Don Doerner)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.sys.cisco,comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: unusual terminal server need
Message-ID: <1991Mar09.194732.17088@ariel.unm.edu>
Date: 9 Mar 91 19:47:32 GMT
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In article <1991Mar08.003144.12983@convex.com> pat@convex.com (Pat Peters) 
writes:

> What we really want to do is hook up the console ports to a terminal
> server and have people telnet/rlogin to the terminal server and then
> come out through the serial ports--exactly the reverse of how you'd
> normally use a terminal server.  I'm told that most terminal servers
> don't have the ability to accept incoming telnet/rlogin sessions in
> the quantity necessary to make this viable.
> 
> Anyone out there have some suggestions?

Actually, most terminal servers that I have seen will allow you to do 
this...  I am doing it with cisco terminal servers on a routine basis.  I 
know that others work as well.  If anyone wants details, follow up with 
e-mail, please.



Don Doerner, Manager, Network Services
University of New Mexico
Computer and Information Resources and Technology

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