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> From: Jeff Horn <jeff.horn@nssl.noaa.gov>

>
> Has anyone successfully done this? Could you tell me how? I have set
> up the drivers supplied by Digi and can connect to these devices via
> tip. When I connect through the console program, I get an error message
> like "line is down" or something like that.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Jeff Horn
>

I have a Digi mux also and have seen this. I think it has to do
with conserver attempting to open the port before the Digi drivers
are completely loaded and ready for connections. Anyway, I have had
success using '^Eco' (that's control-e then c then o) to force
conserver to re-open the device when it reports "line is down".
Doesn't help for logging until you go to the console for that line
and type it though. I haven't had a chance to do it yet but I am
going to try delaying the start of conserver during bootup to see
if that solves the problem.
--
Patrick Landry The Center for Advanced Computer Studies
Senior System Administrator The University of Louisiana at Lafayette
pml@cacs.louisiana.edu PO Box 44330, Lafayette, LA 70504-4330

Can you not use the unit without the drivers? Use only the Reverse-TCP
support.

-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick M. Landry [mailto:pml@cacs.louisiana.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 4:07 PM
To: jeff.horn@nssl.noaa.gov
Cc: users@conserver.com
Subject: Re: Setting up a DIGI STS with Conserver



> From: Jeff Horn <jeff.horn@nssl.noaa.gov>

>
> Has anyone successfully done this? Could you tell me how? I have set
> up the drivers supplied by Digi and can connect to these devices via
> tip. When I connect through the console program, I get an error message
> like "line is down" or something like that.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Jeff Horn
>

I have a Digi mux also and have seen this. I think it has to do
with conserver attempting to open the port before the Digi drivers
are completely loaded and ready for connections. Anyway, I have had
success using '^Eco' (that's control-e then c then o) to force
conserver to re-open the device when it reports "line is down".
Doesn't help for logging until you go to the console for that line
and type it though. I haven't had a chance to do it yet but I am
going to try delaying the start of conserver during bootup to see
if that solves the problem.
--
Patrick Landry The Center for Advanced Computer Studies
Senior System Administrator The University of Louisiana at Lafayette
pml@cacs.louisiana.edu PO Box 44330, Lafayette, LA 70504-4330

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> > > From: Jeff Horn <jeff.horn@nssl.noaa.gov>
> > >
> > > Has anyone successfully done this? Could you tell me how? I have set
> > > up the drivers supplied by Digi and can connect to these devices via
> > > tip. When I connect through the console program, I get an error message
> > > like "line is down" or something like that.
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > > Jeff Horn
> > >
> >
> > I have a Digi mux also and have seen this. I think it has to do
> > with conserver attempting to open the port before the Digi drivers
> > are completely loaded and ready for connections. Anyway, I have had
> > success using '^Eco' (that's control-e then c then o) to force
> > conserver to re-open the device when it reports "line is down".
> > Doesn't help for logging until you go to the console for that line
> > and type it though. I haven't had a chance to do it yet but I am
> > going to try delaying the start of conserver during bootup to see
> > if that solves the problem.
> > --
> > Patrick Landry The Center for Advanced Computer Studies
>
> From: Chris Fowler <ChrisF@computone.com>
>
> Can you not use the unit without the drivers? Use only the Reverse-TCP
> support.
>

Whoops. My mistake. I have a Digi multiplexor which provides serial
ports via the PCI bus. The only way to use the serial ports is through
the devices supplied by the digi drivers. Apparently the STS which you
have is not a plain mux but a teminal server of some kind.
--
Patrick Landry The Center for Advanced Computer Studies
Senior System Administrator The University of Louisiana at Lafayette
pml@cacs.louisiana.edu PO Box 44330, Lafayette, LA 70504-4330

On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 02:52:50PM -0500, Jeff Horn wrote:
> Has anyone successfully done this? Could you tell me how? I have set
> up the drivers supplied by Digi and can connect to these devices via
> tip. When I connect through the console program, I get an error message
> like "line is down" or something like that.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Jeff Horn
>

Well, if by 'STS' you mean a SCSI based server, then yes, it can work.
I've set up a model ST-1610 on a Solaris host and it "just worked" by
pointing conserver at the /dev/cua/ ports.

Here are some sample entries:

digi-8:/dev/cua/7:9600p:&:1h
digi-9:/dev/cua/8:9600p:&:1h
digi-10:/dev/cua/9:9600p:&:1h

If it's not working, it would be nice to know what version of conserver
you're trying it with, what operating system your using, what your
conserver.cf entries look like, and (if a recent version of conserver)
'conserver -v -D' output.

Hope that helps.

Bryan