I need a Serial Terminal program so I can connect to a variety of Unix boxes via the Serial Console from a Windows Box.

Does anyone have any recommendations for a good terminal program which will let me connect other devices over a serial connection?

Hyperterminal is really intended for modems & telnet sessions, and has a very small set of functionality--- I can't send a "Break" command for example, which means I can't access many advanced functions on a Sun box.

I used TeraTerm years ago, but that program looks abandoned.

Thanks in advance,

-= Stefan

I looked around and asked a couple friends... CRT by VanDyke software seems like exactly what I need:

http://www.vandyke.com/products/crt/index.html

When I was a teenager, there were dozens of programs which would connect to a modem or serial port. Now there are only a handful. I feel so old.

Open SSH seems to be popular

OpenSSH is a very different animal. OpenSSH requires TCP/IP and an Operating System on the host.

I'm looking for something which can talk over a serial connection so I can connect to the serial console on my Sun box -- there is no Operating System on the machine yet, and no keyboard or monitor. I only have the serial console.

I;m meaning install openssh on your XP box and use its terminal client to connect to the sun box, IIRC you can specify serial.

You load open ssh on your xp box and use its client to connect to your sun box

I didn't know SSH could connect to a serial port. I thought it required a TCP/IP connection. Serial connections are generally at a lower level of the network stack.

I can't find any documentation on specifying a serial connection from the ssh client. I've looked for documentation about serial connections on openssh.com, and I don't see anything obvious. Can you point out where it does this, even for Linux? Most people I know use Minicom.

Plus, installing OpenSSH on Windows seems to require Cygwin. That's more complex then a simple terminal client like CRT.