Serial Communications Software

[woodgie]

I’m doing my CCNA (and my head hurts) and I was curious, who uses what?

Serial communications via the XServe’s serial port (caveats apply) or a USB to Serial adapter is a very useful thing. You can, for instance, configure your Cisco routers via a console session.

So the question is: What Serial communication software do you use?

I’ve got ZTerm working nicely, but it’s old and doesn’t seem to have been updated in about 3 years. I’m worried an OS update will kill it soon.

I’ve also had a poke around with Minicom as installed by Fink but with no luck. As far as I can see, there is precious little Mac OS X compatible Serial communication software out there!

/edit. I’ve found goSerial, but it’s still in alpha…

Anyone got a favourite? Experiences? Tips and tricks?

If I can get a good cross section of stuff to play with, I’ll have a go at writing a tutorial, but no breath holding, OK?

[woodgie]

4 Days of nothing. Am I the only one using a serial connection to anything?

[woodgie]

[QUOTE BY= macshome] I’ve always just used ZTerm.[/QUOTE]

Fair enough, and as I said I’ve got it running nicely. But surely there are alternatives!

[quinch]

I normally use ZTerm if I want only a single session at a time.

For multiple sessions (what’s the point of having a 4-port Keyspan adapter if you don’t use it!) I either use Black Knight under Classic or MacWise under X (although tying the activation key to the MAC address is fairly unfriendly).

[merdrum21]

I’m having trouble getting zterm to work Tiger 10.45. never had a need to use the serial port before. It says to run this in the terminal on the website if it can’t find the port but didn’t know if it would effect anything else.

ioreg -c IOSerialBSDClient

Is this ok to run on a server without it effecting anything else?

thanks

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