[Info-vax] virtual consoles

[Christoph Gartmann]

In article <paul.nospam-6DF7E3.13115220102009 at pbook.sture.ch>, "P. Sture" <paul.nospam at sture.ch> writes:
>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).

But this is not a big deal. Simply add both MAC addresses into your MOP or
LANCP database.

Regards,
   Christoph Gartmann

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