Re: Console(ation) sought !

["Gary Kuznitz " <docfxit@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

What's the actual problem with the console?  Can you elaborate?

Gary Kuznitz

On 27 Jan 00, at 12:37, Jon.Paris@halinfo.it wrote:

> Hopefully one of you hardware gurus can advise this software weenie on
> this.
> 
> Since my poor old (new actually) model 170 still does not have a
> consistently working console I'm looking at alternatives.  I there a
> simple (read cheap) hardware solution open to me that will give me a
> nice twinax console so that I can sleep at night.  We are currently
> using the "old-style" serial console support but every so often it
> dies (for reasons that I won't bore you with).  So far we've been
> lucky and have still had our TCP/IP network running at the time we
> needed the console.  Because of this we have been able to reset the
> console and all has been well.  My fear is that one day the network
> will die and the console will not come back to life by itself and then
> I've got a large black veggie on my hands.

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