Section 1 - Introduction - Equinox Systems ESP-2 MI Installation And User Manual

Section 1 - Introduction

The Equinox ESP 2-port Multi-Interface (ESP-2 MI) serial hub contains an
autosensing 10/100 Ethernet port and two multi-interface serial ports.
The ESP-2 MI hub supports several ways to access the serial ports (see Serial Port
Connection Methods and Attributes on page 10 for more information):
• Serial port redirection
• Telnet server
• Raw TCP server
• Raw TCP client
• Modem emulation
• Configuration utility
Serial port redirection uses Equinox drivers installed on a host computer. The ESP-2
serial hub drivers are supported on the following operating systems:
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Windows 2000
Windows NT
OpenServer™ 5.0.5a or higher
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Linux
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Sun Solaris
For serial port redirection, the ESP-2 hub is configured using the appropriate drivers
running on any Microsoft Windows host, or espdiag and espcfg for OpenServer,
UnixWare, Linux, Sun or AIX systems. Certain configuration values are set during
driver installation.
All other connection methods do not require the use of drivers.
You may configure and manage the ESP-2 serial hub using the following tools:
• Web interface - see Web Interface on page 22.
• Configuration utility - see Configuration Utility on page 32.
• Configuration files - see Configuration Files on page 40.
• EquiView Plus (Windows/NT systems and later), espcfg and espdiag (Unix sys-
tems) - these utilities have limited support for connection methods other than port
redirection. EquiView Plus is included on the Equinox SuperSerial Software CD,
and provides a guided interface. For EquiView Plus information, see the CD or
the Equinox web site, www.equinox.com, for instructions.
The web interface and the configuration utility offer the most comprehensive sets of
available operations.
The ESP-2 hub supports attended and unattended configuration. With attended
configuration, you set values and request actions directly through the web interface or
the configuration utility. Unattended configuration uses a flat text file containing
configuration commands. The commands are processed as if they were requested
Equinox ESP-2 MI Serial Hub Installation and User Guide
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4.0
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for X86 or SPARC 8 or higher
Windows XP
Windows Server 2003
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UnixWare 7.0.1a or higher
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AIX 4.3 and 5.1
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