Ours works like a charm, for suns, bsdi, ciscos, switches, anything..
The trick is to switch your terminal to 8 bit in the startup for suns.
At the top of /etc/rc on suns we have "/usr/bin/stty -parenb -parodd cs8"
console.xs4all.nl> ver
Livingston Enterprises PortMaster Version 3.1.4
System uptime is 132 days 23 hours 9 minutes
console.xs4all.nl> show s16
----------------------- Current Status - Port S16 ---------------------------
Status: IDLE
Input: 1228031 Parity Errors: 0
Output: 612 Framing Errors: 0
Pending: 0 Overrun Errors: 0
Active Configuration Default Configuration (* = Host
-------------------- --------------------- Can Override)
Port Type: Device Device
Device Service: Telnet@10016 Telnet@10016
Baud Rates: 9600 9600,9600,9600
Databits: 8 8
Stopbits: 1 1
Parity: none none
Flow Control: None None
Modem Control: off off
Hosts: default
Host Device: Network
Terminal Type:
Login Prompt: ftp console
Cor
>As would I! We've been using a PM2e as a console server for a couple
>of months now, and it's extrememly flaky. We have it connected to a
>number of different devives.... sometimes the console port will just
>freeze up, other times the tty will get all screwed up (it's even caused
>one of our SunOS boxes to crash - I think because it dropped DTR or
>something along those lines.)
>I've tried a number of different configurations on the PM2e ports without
>success.... but would be very interested in hearing from someone who's
>been able to get it working as a console server reasonably well.
>Particularly in port configuration and ComOS version.