Thank you xSauronx, crusty, Nothinman, ScottMac

[skyking]

My googling efforts keep turning up applications for use in some desktop environment.
I want to ssh into a server that is connected with a serial cable to a phone system.
The phone system can be programmed with a VT102 terminal program. Does anyone have a suggestion?
EDIT:
Final results below

 

[xSauronx]

Originally posted by: skyking
My googling efforts keep turning up applications for use in some desktop environment.
I want to ssh into a server that is connected with a serial cable to a phone system.
The phone system can be programmed with a VT102 terminal program. Does anyone have a suggestion?

you get those apps when you search because several linux terminal emulators support emulation for a VT102. have you tried using your DE's default terminal (like Konsole, or Terminal, or rxvt or anything) to see if it would work?

 

[Crusty]

PuTTY can emulate VT100 terminals, so you could tunnel the remote port back to your local desktop and use putty to connect over the first tunnel to your phone system.

 

[skyking]

The location is about 500 miles away, I will be going there tomorrow or Friday to do some other work. I'll connect it with the serial cable then. The server is ssh or console only, I installed none of the desktop environment. I'll try tunneling putty through an ssh, I've never tried that but I bet google will take care of that.

 

[Crusty]

When you are configuring your session goto Connection -> SSH -> Tunnels

For source port put in the LOCAL port on your computer you are going to connect to, and in destination type in ip_address😛ort for the remote connection you want tunnel.

If the only way your phone system can be accessed is from the serial cable at the local site then this won't work, putty only works with TCP/IP forwarding.

It sounds like you just need to find the right terminal emulator on the remote system. I use minicom(on Linux) to pull up the console on our Cisco firewalls over serial and it works well. It has a LOT of configuration options too, it would probably work.

 

[Nothinman]

Do you want something like minicom?

 

[ScottMac]

Do you need VT102 specifically (like for line drawing modes or some other feature) or is VT100 close enough?

 

[skyking]

Thank you all🙂 I am off to hook it up and try out minicom.

 

[skyking]

I had a few moments, like the one when I realized the serial port was disabled in the BIOS😀
After I fixed that and configured the settings, minicom did the trick. You learn things like minicom and hyperterminal from the tribe of crusty ones, thank you all for the help.
The degree of coolness for new remote tools grows exponentially with the distance.
This one is 550 miles of coolness😎