[thelist] Linux connection to multiple Unix boxes via Digiboard?

[Judah McAuley]

At 04:53 PM 1/9/2002 -0800, Hassan Schroeder expounded...
<snip>
>An approach that I've used in the (chronically underfunded) past:
>
>Some (not all) Suns have two serial ports. A tty login prompt is
>presented on Serial Port A by default. Lets assume your systems
>have two serial ports.
>
>Say you have three Suns -- #1, #2, #3 -- in a rack. Get three RS232
>cables and connect #1 port B to #2 port A; #2 port B to #3 port A;
>#3 port B to #1 port A.
>
>Now you can ssh or telnet into #1 and use `tip` to get console on
>#2, and so on. As long as they aren't down simultaneously, you're
>set.
>
>And so you don't have to remember which way the connections go --
>put aliases in DNS like
>
>     hostname    alias
>#1   larry      moe-console
>#2   moe        curly-console
>#3   curly      larry-console
</snip>

That's a very cool hack.  Likely, I will never have to use it, but I 
appreciate the bass-ackwards subtrefuge that went into that work around.

My brain is dead, so I'm going to claim a -1 to my tip pool for this OT post.

Judah