[X Servers] Serial connection?

[Brent Baisley]

Yep, me too. I haven't figure out how to do it on the newer Macs that 
don't have serial ports, but I've done it on the older Beige Macs. When 
I first needed to do it, I dug through some old hardware I had. I found 
an old modem (28.8) that had cables for Mac (printer or modem port) and 
PC. The cable adapter for the Mac fit the cable for the Cisco router so 
I tried it and it worked.

As for Hyperterminal, you can use ZTerm, which has been around for as 
long as I can remember. And I remember when Multifinder was shareware! 
Everyone does remember Multifinder, right?


On Tuesday, April 22, 2003, at 02:01 PM, konrad cichocki wrote:

> Being a Network Admin, I find it necessary to
> sometimes have to use a serial cable to look at a
> configuration of a switch or router.
> How can I do this with a Mac since they never had a
> 9-pin serial connection?
> Is there some kind of converter? What application in X
> acts like HyperTerminal on the PC?
>
> TIA
> Konrad
>
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Brent Baisley
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