[Info-vax] virtual consoles

[P. Sture]

In article 
<3e94dabf-2e68-4668-bd48-a3c5230bad27 at d23g2000vbm.googlegroups.com>,
 Rich Jordan <jordan at ccs4vms.com> wrote:

> On Oct 19, 2:19 am, hel... at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---
> remove CLOTHES to reply) wrote:
> >
> >
> > I have really old terminal servers---20 years or so.  Would they work?
> 
> In a hobby environment, sure.  For production use, consider what
> happens if you lose power.  Your console DECserver goes down.  The old
> ones without flash won't come back up until the VMS (or other) load
> host comes up enough to provide that service.  If it doesn't come up,
> your console DS is a useless brick and you have to manually connect a
> terminal to the console ports if something has gone wrong.
> 

There's another angle to that one.  If you replace your terminal server 
with a spare, your host server may reject upload requests from it.  On 
some (all?) models, you can transfer a chip containing the MAC address 
to the new unit; otherwise you have to modify your host server settings 
to allow the unit to access the server (via MOP or LANCP on a VMS 
system).

-- 
Paul Sture