Re: The ability to have one console for many AS400's

["Jerome Draper" <jdraper@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nlynx has an ethernet to twinax solution that allows for up to 4 twinax
cards (one per AS400) in a pc (console?) accessible via TCP/IP over a LAN.
Yes, you could probably run/monitor a SAVE opt 21 from this situation.

Jerry

----- Original Message -----
From: <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 04:27 PM
Subject: RE: The ability to have one console for many AS400's


> > [Ted Bunn] I  am trying to find a solution to have one console display,
> > keyboard,mouse to be connected to many AS400's. Like an Avocent switch.
>
> If you don't mind having to sign off before switching hosts (and possibly
> having to turn the terminal off as well, if you have a 348x and a mix of
> plain and enhanced controllers), a simple Twinax switch will do the job.
> They're not all that expensive, and I can speak from experience that they
> work rather well. (Our oldest is a tad balky, forcing you to jiggle the
> knob to get good contact, but the two we got after that are very
> reliable).
>
> A simple GOOGLE search on the words "TWINAX SWITCH" turned up some at an
> outfit called "cables on line" at
>     http://www.cablesonline.net
> with a 4-way going for $18, and a 2-way going for $10.
>
> Oh, and if you need to have two terminals sharing, say, 4 Twinax lines,
> with each able to access any line, T-fittings seem to work rather well
> with our switchboxes.
>
> --
> JHHL
>
>
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