[rescue] SGI serial Q

[Kurt Huhn]

"Jonathan C. Patschke" wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 27 May 2002, Kurt Huhn wrote:
> 
> > Has anyone every used an Octane to configure a Cisco router or switch?
> > Which particular breed of dead chicken must one wave when attempting to
> > use minicom or cu to do such things?
> 
> Octane<->ciscoSystems "PC" adapter<->rollover<->cisco
> 
> Also, make sure you're opening /dev/ttyd? instead of /dev/ttyf?, as Cisco
> devices don't tend to support hardware flow-control.  If you open
> /dev/ttyf?, minicom will block on waiting for flow-control signals.
> 

Ah!  The part I'm missing is "rollover".  What is that?  Null modem
adapter?
-- 
Kurt
kurt at k-huhn.com