terminal emulation

[Richard Coleman]

He said he needs a serial console.  You can't do that with telnet.  "cu" 
and "tip" are the traditional Unix interfaces for this.  But they suck. 
  There are many better methods in the ports tree.

rc

Minnesota Slinky wrote:
> Just a question, why not just use telnet?
> 
> Eric F Crist
> AdTech Integrated Systems, Inc
> (952) 403-9000 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Alexey
> Koptsevich
> Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2003 4:35 PM
> To: questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: terminal emulation
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I would like to use FreeBSD machine as a serial console to another
> FreeBSD machine. Server part is described in the Handbook, but I have
> found nothing about client part. Which program should I use for terminal
> emulation? How can I make, for instance, xterm to communicate to the
> serial port?
> 
> Thanks,
> Alex