J2842A - mux card control

[Michael MacDonald]

I have a J2842A mux card in a B180l.
I want to be able to have term windows into 8
systems, with a direct connect cable to each.

What command do I use to do this.
When I created the ttys in sam, it entered them into inittab.

Any help. Thanks Mike

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Hi Mike:

I think we need a little clarification. This MUX that normally is used for incoming connections. The inittab entries probably spawn a getty. You simply connect a terminal to each port (or a PC terminal emulator) and you then get a login on your local B180 if you have enough multi-user licenses.

If you want outgoing connections then you've got a lot more work to do. You've got to set up uucp Direct connections for each port and then you use the cu command. Man uucp and cu for details.

If all you need are casual outgoing connections, then vi /etc/inittab and set all the those 'respawn' values to 'off' on the MUX tty ports. Then do an init c to force a reread of inittab. You then use kermit to make the connection.

kermit
set line //dev/tty1p0 (or whatever)
set speed 9600 (or maybe 19200)
connect
That should give you a login.

Clay