RE: Filer Serial Connectivity - toasters

3 Apr 2001

      Actually, is there any reason you *couldn't* hook a modem up to the console
port?  I used to hook modems up to the console ports of old UNIX systems all
the time in my early days of tech support.
The console port is just a serial port, and the modem is just a serial
interface device.  I don't see why you couldn't hook a modem up to a console
port and as long as you got the cabling right and configured the modem right
it should work.
Though personally if I were going to go through this sort of work I would
likely hook the modem up to a separate terminal server or a machine running
conserver.
-- 
Mike Sphar - Sr Systems Administrator - Engineering Support Services -
Remedy Corporation
BOFH, GWP, MCP, MCP+I, MCSE, BFD

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Paul Brosseau [mailto:paulb@netapp.com] 
Sent:	Tuesday, April 03, 2001 6:42 AM
To:	geen@ti.com; toasters@mathworks.com
Subject:	RE: Filer Serial Connectivity

As for the dial-in thing, That is the old way of doing things.  Today you
want to leverage your network to do things.  I think that filers should have
an option to hook a modem directly up to the console port, but the
usefulness of such a feature is pretty limited.  The product design is
network centric.  In the old days the network used to be unreliable.
Today's switched netwoorks are probably the mostreliable part of the
computing infrastructure.  Except of course for your filers ;-)