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From Win2000/XP/NT, you can run telnet from the command prompt •
(cmd.exe)
You can also use standard communications packages like PuTTY to •
set a direct Telnet (or SSH) connection to the serial ports (see box
below)
Also, if the remote communications are being tunneled with •
MetaConnect, then Telnet can be used for securely accessing
attached devices
In Console Server mode, Users and Administrators can use MetaCon-
nect to set up secure Telnet connections that are SSH tunneled from
their client PC/workstations to the serial port on the ECS0016. MetaCon-
nect then enables those secure Telnet connections to be selected with a
simple point and click.
To use MetaConnect to access consoles on the ECS0016 serial ports,
you must configure MetaConnect using the ECS0016 as a gateway, then
as a host, with Telnet service on Port (2000 + serial port #) i.e. 2001–
2016 enabled.
MetaConnect can be installed on Windows 2000, XP, 2003, Vista™ PCs
and on most Linux platforms. Solaris platforms are also supported, how-
ever they must have Firefox installed.
Enter the ECS0016 gateway’s IP address as the ‘Host Name (or IP ad-
dress)’. Select ‘
Telnet’ as the protocol and set the ‘TCP port’ to 2000 plus
the physical serial port number (i.e. 2001 to 2016).
Click the ‘
Open’ button. You may then receive a ‘Security Alert’ that the
host’s key is not cached - choose ‘yes’ to proceed. You will then be pre-
sented with the login prompt of the remote system connected to the serial
port chosen on the ECS0016 device, where you can login as normal and
use the host serial console screen.