Ok. First I want to say thanks to everyone for there input, but there
is another "but" following...

But, I still can't get the machines to talk. I booted sun1 into SU
mode then quickly unplugged the keyboard and mouse. I then connected
my laptop (Procomm Plus on Win2k) to the serial A/B port. I got a
carrier-detect light, but nothing from the console. I tried this both
with and without null cable. Then tried the same thing for the serial
port of sun2 (running normal console) with/without null. Nothing. I
can't get any kind of output from the serial port. I'm getting close
to wits end here.

Is serial A console by default? Or do I have to edit some config
files?

Thanks again.

gerg@panix.com (Greg Andrews) wrote in message news:<bg690u$lm5$1@reader1.panix.com>...
> bozothedeathmachine@excite.com (Ben) writes:
> >Hi all. I'd like to connect 2 e450s via a serial connection so I can
> >tip from one to the other. I am doing some testing which will require
> >1 of the 450s to be in single user mode and I will be remote.
> >
> >I have tried connecting the 2 A/B ports with a null modem cable and
> >tip-ing to cua/a but that didn't get me anywhere. Can anyone else give
> >me a tip or 2?
> >
>
> When your first E450 is using its A port as the console, you can't
> run tip on it for other purposes. So you need to get a splitter
> cable to give you access to the signals for the B port for using tip.
> So then you would connect the cable to the B connector on the splitter
> cable on the E450 you run tip on, and the other end of the cable would
> connect to the A/B port on the E450 you will run in single-user mode.
>
> -Greg