[SunHELP] break sent during connection to SC

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ok thanks for the tip.  Now this "send break signal" is the equivalent 
of what Stop-A does correct?  meaning the OS is halted for the time 
being?

----- Original Message -----
From: Dieter Montanez <dietermontanez at bellsouth.net>
Date: Wednesday, June 8, 2005 3:59 pm
Subject: Re: [SunHELP] break sent during connection to SC

> use "go" instead of "resume" to get out of the ok prompt.
> 
> Sometimes when you reboot a PC it will generate break
> signal and if it is connected to the console port ... bang
> 
> dieter
> 
> 
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> Subject: [SunHELP] break sent during connection to SC
> 
> 
> I connected to an V880 SC this morning through the serial port. It 
> was 
> already stupid that I chose to use hyperterm since you can't 
> manually 
> send a break, but somehow it sent a break anyway.  Either through 
> having connected a cable or perhaps settings I chose which were 
> 9600,N,8,1.  Is there any explanation behind this?   I suppose 
> setting 
> the keyswitch to lock should prevent this in the future, but I 
> flipped 
> out to see our production box sitting at the ok prompt...  I 
> tried "resume" but was getting FAST MMU miss so I had to reboot 
> the 
> box.  Thanks for any info.
> 
> FYI I've caught wind of TERATERM and i'm going to check that out, 
> but I'
> m still wary of connecting up through the serial port if a break 
> is 
> going to be sent and thus interrupt operations.  All I really need 
> to 
> do is dump the config and get the IP address that was originally 
> configured in the SC for administrative telnet connections.
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