Using a PM-2E as a console server for Suns - eeprom settings?

David Kovar (kovar@WebNexus.COM)
Tue, 15 Apr 1997 16:04:48 -0700 (PDT)

I followed the documentation on Livingston's web page for setting
a Livingston 2E up as a console server for a number of Suns. The idea
is that via serial connections from the portmaster, you can establish
sessions with the console port on each Sun.

This is working fine with one exception, and a serious problem related
to that exception:

I cannot get the connection to drop when I log out of the console port.
When I log out, I get the console prompt from the Sun back, not the command
prompt from the Livingston. If I am using telnet to connect to the PM-2E
port, I can just drop the telnet session. If I am using a terminal attached
to the PM-2E, this doesn't work.

So I power cycled the terminal. This caused the Sun to think it had lost
it's console and halt.

Not good.

I suspect I just have my eeprom settings wrong, but I am not quite
sure what they should be. If someone could send me the correct eeprom
settings for a Sun running Solaris, and any other related "gotcha's!"
that I might have missed, I would be quite appreciative!

-David