One option is to get a network printserver that has a serial port on it. On many models, you can telnet to the printserver, then use telnet on the serial port- dont know what models support this, but I know some do. Jay On Friday 01 March 2002 02:52 pm, \"Erik V. Anderson\" wrote: > 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 > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, > Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list