Multiple serial consoles via null modem cable

Nicolas Rachinsky fbsd-stable-0 at ml.turing-complete.org
Fri Jan 22 21:21:41 UTC 2010


* Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd at jdc.parodius.com> [2010-01-19 23:46 -0800]:
> You cannot do something like where box1 COM1 is wired to box2 COM1, and
> depending on what box you're on doing the "cu -l ttyu0" from, get a
> login prompt on the other.  It doesn't work like that.  :-)

Isn't the reason for different dial-in and dial-out devices that this
should work? Or does that only work with modem?

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/serial.html#ACCESS-SERIAL-PORTS

Nicolas
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