Subject: Re: breaking to SRM via a terminal server.
To: None <port-alpha@netbsd.org>
From: Carl Lowenstein <cdl@mpl.ucsd.edu>
List: port-alpha
Date: 01/13/2002 21:37:02
> Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 22:34:17 +0100
> From: Jochen Kunz <jkunz@unixag-kl.fh-kl.de>
> To: Stephen M Jones <smj@cirr.com>
> Cc: port-alpha@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: breaking to SRM via a terminal server.
> 
> On 2002.01.13 21:40 Stephen M Jones wrote:
> 
> > I don't seem to be able to break back to SRM.  Any suggestions or
> > thoughts?  I'm using 'send brk' 
> Sending break is not supported on all terminal servers. I know that the
> DECserver 300 does not support it too. I have two terminal servers from
> Prime, that support it. A work around is to set the terminal server
> temporarily to a very low baud rate (300 or so) and send some chars...

Does the serial console actually respond to BREAK or is that a Sun or
PDP-11 phenomenon?  I thought that the equivalent stimulus for Alpha
and Vax was <ctrl>P.

    carl
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