connecting macs to criscos

Hi,

I'm trying to figure out how to connect my Mac Titanium to a cisco via
console cable, and of course it's not nearly primitive enough for such
useful tasks.  I've discarded the idea of carrying a VT220 around on my
back, and googled around and found this:

http://macosx.forked.net/bbarchive/forum3/000029.html

So I got me a Keyspan USB to serial converter, and followed the
instructions, and I get the following:

[console:/etc] brni# /usr/local/bin/console routera
console: console: access from your host refused

When I run conserver with the -D flag, I get this as the apparently
relevant messages:

[Tue Mar 11 21:07:51 2003] conserver (541): DEBUG: AccType():
hostname=localhost, ip=127.0.0.1
[Tue Mar 11 21:07:51 2003] conserver (541): DEBUG: AccType():
who=192.168.1.100, trust=a
[Tue Mar 11 21:07:51 2003] conserver (541): DEBUG: AccType(): who=local.,
trust=a
[Tue Mar 11 21:07:51 2003] conserver (541): DEBUG: AccType():
name=localhost


and the "routera" log says:

[console:/etc] brni# more /usr/local/sbin/routera
[-- Console up -- Tue Mar 11 21:05:23 2003]

*Mar  1 12:28:59: %QUICC_ETHER-1-LOSTCARR: Unit 0, lost carrier.
Transceiver pro
blem?
*Mar  1 12:29:59: %QUICC_ETHER-1-LOSTCARR: Unit 0, lost carrier.
Transceiver pro
blem?
*Mar  1 12:30:59: %QUICC_ETHER-1-LOSTCARR: Unit 0, lost carrier.
Transceiver pro
blem?
[and so on]


Anyone have any clues on how to make it run happily?



- brni
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