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On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 08:51:00AM +0200, Gonzalo Aguilera wrote: > Thanks for your answer James, a direct cable console is a 5250 emulation > connected through a serial port to an iSeries. It is needed for clean > installations of the operating system or when tcp fails... I looked at this once. The interface to the AS/400's console port is a nonstandard, extended serial IP link (dunno if it's SLIP or PPP) from IBM's software in the PC acting as console to the AS/400's LIC (the middleware that makes a PowerPC act like an AS/400). While the terminal data is most likely tn5250, there's much more there. The interface is considered internal and proprietary to IBM. It's very much a moving target, and totally undocumented. It might be possible, with enough work, to add a layer (it'd have to be a network driver) to Linux that tn5250 could use; that work would likely have to be substantially redone with every OS/400 release.
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