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Hello Roberto,

Am 11.05.2023 um 23:45 schrieb Roberto José Etcheverry Romero <yggdrasil.raiker@xxxxxxxxx>:

If I recall correctly the Operations Console that used the serial port was based on a weird TCP over Serial stack.

I don't think so, but I can't prove it. :-) From reading the document hinted by Marc, I think this "weird" IP support is needed only when using RAS facilities to dial into a remote PC for obtaining a console. My guess is that purely local access might be less picky.

If those cables weren't so expensive, I'd obtain one, try and document what still works, with modern hard- and software, probably USB-Serial and running Windows in a virtual machine. Or probably try to run contemporary CA versions with Wine under Linux.

If anyone has a 97H7557 cable spare to donate for this, I'm all ears. I also have "luggage transport" opportunities from the US to Europe — I'm living in Germany.

and even then the thing was extremely finicky, I remember several days fighting the console and the 25,26, 65+21 functions to get back the console

I have heard similar reports.

but that was on Power5 hardware. I have never seen a non-twinax machine before the Power5 generation.

You probably have not seen 9401-P0x machines then. :-)

They come in basically two flavors (different MFIOP boards, I think):
- Twinax and no LAN,
- LAN but no Twinax.

LAN being an optional IOA for either Token Ring or Ethernet.

Without Twinax, console support over the always included serial IOA was the only way to actually have console on these machines.

:wq! PoC


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