RH9: terminal to talk to my Cisco 803 Router 1

[daFranze]

I want to "talk" to my Cisco 803 Router via "COM1", I need something like Windows' hyperterm (which is a mess)...

which rpm do I need to install and how do I talk via COM1
i have installed RH 9 on this host

(btw: I am a Solaris admin, can I use xterm and a talker program like Solaris' tip-Program?)

Regards
-- Franz
Sorry I'm not a native spaeker, I'm from Munich, Germany - "Home of the Whopper", oh no, "Home of the Oktoberfest" ;-)

 

[daFranze]

no ideas?

Regards
-- Franz
Sorry I'm not a native spaeker, I'm from Munich, Germany - "Home of the Whopper", oh no, "Home of the Oktoberfest" ;-)
Solaris System Manager; I used to work for Sun Microsystems Support (EMEA) for 5 years

 

[jrjuiliano]

I know it's not much of an answer, but hyperterm is just a shell, of which Linux has plenty.

NOW, you just need to figure out how to get your shell to communicate over COM lines. Or you can also use telnet, if I'm not mistaken.

J.R.

 

[daFranze]

no, telnet cannot talk over com lines, you need something like Solaris' /bin/tip
my colleague uses feebsd and he uses minicom, i will try to find out if it's available under RH/Linux

Regards
-- Franz
Sorry I'm not a native spaeker, I'm from Munich, Germany - "Home of the Whopper", oh no, "Home of the Oktoberfest" ;-)
Solaris System Manager; I used to work for Sun Microsystems Support (EMEA) for 5 years

 

[BIS]

http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=minicom

 

[daFranze]

cool searchengine, thank you!

Regards
-- Franz
Sorry I'm not a native spaeker, I'm from Munich, Germany - "Home of the Whopper", oh no, "Home of the Oktoberfest" ;-)
Solaris System Manager; I used to work for Sun Microsystems Support (EMEA) for 5 years

 

[BIS]

Now all you need to do is get aquainted with Debians apt-get ;-)

 

[flugh]

An rpm search engine I prefer over rpmfind.net:

http://rpm.pbone.net

Look out, it's apt for Redhat 9! I've tried it out, very nice. Painless to start using it too (no acrobatic conversion steps to go through).

http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/922872/com/apt-0.5.5cnc6-fr1.i386.rpm.html

Minicom is definitely available for Linux (anyone else recall the days of using minicom to query your external modem, get commands right, then feed a 'chat' script to 'ppp' to dial-up to the net?).

They call me Methusala... ;-)

----
JBR

 

[daFranze]

I found out it's already installed...

Regards
-- Franz
Sorry I'm not a native spaeker, I'm from Munich, Germany - "Home of the Whopper", oh no, "Home of the Oktoberfest" ;-)
Solaris System Manager; I used to work for Sun Microsystems Support (EMEA) for 5 years