Remote Gear Support ..
e-krol at uiuc.edu
e-krol at uiuc.edu
Wed Sep 2 18:09:22 UTC 1992
At 2 Sep 12:28 CDT, Jeff Wabik wrote:
>
>
>I've been poking around (thru the Black Box catalog, for example) for
>equipment to help us support our remote network gear located near the
>NSS to which we attach. I've had little success at finding the
>right pieces. I'm wondering if any of you have implemented any of
>these (listed below) solutions, and if so, where you found the
>equipment to do it; then subsequent sucess/failure information.
>
>Not in any particular order, here are the functions I'd like to be able
>to perform remotely.. This is a "grandiose wish list", as it were.
>
> * Software switchable dial-up access to serial ports
> on all gear (several ports):
> To Device 1
> +------------->
> |+------------>
> || To Device 2
> Phone line +-------+ +---------+++ .
>-----------------| Modem |---| Magic Box | .
> +-------+ +-----------+ .
> || To Device (n-1)
> |+------------>
> +------------->
> To Device (n)
>
> In this scenario, I dial into the modem to the "magic box",
> and give it some character code or sequence to attach me to
> the specified port. I can escape back to the magic-box
> and request subsequent connections without having to
> redial. [Black box has one of these for 4 ports, but I hear
> its not too good. Any experiences?]
>
CICnet did just this. There was a 4 port I thought black box
code controled switch. There was one port to the cisco router
and one to each of the csu ports. The switch had like and esc, ctlz, n
where n was 1 - 4 saying switch to port 1-4. Otherwise it was transparent.
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