getty over async line from terminal server

[Willy Lyssens]

Hi,

We would like to start a getty on a port of a cisco terminal server. We have written a program which opens a socket on the port and a pseudo terminal on the HP. When we try this connection with redirected echo's and cat's it works fine. But when we start a getty on the pseudo terminal it looks fine (i.e. there is a login prompt on the terminal) but when we type in the first character of out login name, the getty chrashes...

Any ideas on how we can resolv this ?
Has anyone has a similar setup ?
Or is there an alternative to do what we want ?

Thanks a lot !

Willy.

[Devbinder Singh Marway]

Hi willy,

let me get this right , you have a terminal server , where you have configured a port on it so that you can attach a terminal to it .
This port , have you given it a port number
.e.g port 2 , which is say /dev/tty2 is your terminal ?

In the inittab file you have an entry for this terminal port , set to respawn ?

If so , the getty should restart itself , and
when you press a key on the terminal does it die again and restart itself ( ps -ef | grep getty shows the new getty process)

what are your entries in gettydefs file for this terminal ?

This could be a problem , with the terminal / cable or terminal server port itself ?

Have you tried configuring the terminal on a different port ?

[Olav Baadsvik]

Hello,

As an alternative you might want to look
at ddfa.

Do a man ddfa and I think you will
find that is of interest.
man ddfa will also point you to the
other things you will have to setup etc.

Regards
Olav