Our company has a rather large AIX box/ESS system which is going to be moved off-site to a hosting company down in Omaha...remote access is normally not a problem when the system is running well. However, if the need ever comes up to reboot the server, it is necessary to have a "local" terminal to see the boot messages. At the present time, this is not a problem - we can just sit down at the console, but obviously when it's moved down to Omaha, this is not an option. Does anyone know of a way to accomplish this remotely? I've heard some random info about using the ASYNC port on the router to plug into the serial port of the AIX box...is this the only way to accomplish what we need to do, or are there some other suggestions. BTW - I joined the mailing list about two weeks ago, and have really enjoyed "listening in". Unfortunately, I will not be able to be at the meeting tomorrow, but I will try and attend in the future. Thanks! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Erik V. Anderson erik at andersonfam.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~