Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!enea!maxim!prc
From: prc@maxim.ERBE.SE (Robert Claeson)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Ethernet terminal servers
Message-ID: <459@maxim.ERBE.SE>
Date: 17 Jan 89 21:25:45 GMT
References: <6556@fluke.COM> <405@ccd700.UUCP>
Organization: ERBE DATA AB
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In article <405@ccd700.UUCP>, reh@ccd700.UUCP (reh) writes:

> We have a VAX 8700 with a couple terminal servers, and users logged
> into the VAX thru the terminal server are assigned virtual terminal
> names.  This is because the server is capable of allowing the user
> to have multiple sessions from the same server port.  The problem
> is that the host has no way of finding the physical port that the
> user is connected to.  This makes it frustrating to debug bad ports
> or locate users.  Is there any way to find out the physical port
> that a user is on?

It depends on what terminal servers you're using. If you have
Encore's Annex terminal servers, you can create pty's (assuming
you run UNIX) on the  host that are tied to ports on the servers
and let the host put a getty on that port. But then you cannot open
multiple sessions. Or, you can have the Annex log all connections.
It can use either the syslog  facility on your host or its own
log, or both.

I do hope someone can get their  act together and standardize on
a consistent remote terminal or pty numbering scheme. Encore has
done this with Annex'es connected to their own computers, the
Multimax'es (provided you use their own distributed tty interface),
and I guess that DEC has done something similar with their own
LAT remote tty protocol.

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