SUMMARY: Equinox/ELS-16 Terminal Server Issues

Hi guys.

Special awards go to the following for out of office replys:
Abeysekera, Krishani [Abeysekera@cl.uh.edu]
Manohar Nayak [Manohar@Yodlee.com]
Glass, David [david.glass@bg-group.com]
Salum, Felipe [felipe.salum@eds.com]
Linnemann, Britta [Britta.Linnemann@t-systems.com]
Vmer Cankardes [omeca@kocbank.com.tr]

I had one reply, thanks Randall Cruz, but that didn't clear the problem up.

After much, erm, angst shall we say, I tracked the problem down to the
RJ45->DB25 connector we were using. After some screwdriver related violence
directed at the plugs I discovered that there are quite a few different
pinout variations and that tripped us up.

We're now in the process of rewiring a few so they will work :)

Regards,

Tony

-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Jenness
Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 2:42 PM
To: 'sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org'
Subject: Equinox/ELS-16 Terminal Server Issues


Hi managers.

I'm having a rather annoying problem with Equinox ELS-16 terminal servers. I
have a couple of these to place in our datacentres so for any reason I can
bounce onto the console of our Sun boxes from work.

The problem is as follows.

We configured the term server in our office to talk to a E250 (Solaris 9) we
have here. That all worked fine so we took the TS out to our datacentre,
stuck it in the rack, changed the IP/Gateway and connected the serial ports
to our machines out there. This includes a 2x V880's, 1 Netra X1 and 1 V100.

Telneting to the TS's ip and using the respective port 3001-3016 we run into
problems.

Basicially we can connect fine but we get nothing displayed. No login
screen, nada. However if I leave the connection open for a period of time
and I do something via a ssh session that produces a message that goes to
the console, a SU for example, it will show on the screen.

---
root@somebox:~# telnet  3003
Trying 10.0.254.5...
Connected to 10.0.254.5.
Escape character is '^]'.
SU 10/03 14:38 + pts/2 tonyj-root
---

If I connect as above and I kill the console process:

---
root@targetbox:/# ps -ef |grep console
    root   900     1  0 11:53:05 console  0:00 /usr/lib/saf/ttymon -g -h -p
winston console login:  -T sun -d /dev/console -l
---

I get the following:

---
root@somebox:~# telnet 10.0.254.5 3003
Trying 10.0.254.5...
Connected to 10.0.254.5.
Escape character is '^]'.
SU 10/03 14:38 + pts/2 tonyj-root


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targetbox console login:
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I'm a bit stumped and playing with the various port options on the TS seem
to bring me no joy. Any help would be appreciated. I'll Summarise if I can
get it fixed :)

Kind regards

Tony
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