Re: Telnet to Serial interface

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From: Euan Troup
Date: Wed, 01 Oct 1997 00:00

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On 30 Sep 1997 21:54:34 GMT, Brent Paddon <brentp@bit.net.au> ascii'd:
>We had a lot of suggestions to use minicom.  Not really what we are after.
>
>More like, we'd like to be able to setup a dummy interface (similar
>to what you would do for a virtual web site), and have a daemon that will listen
>for a telnet request to that IP address, and then automatically (ie DONT run
>minicom - anyone could do that in about 5 mins) connect you to the PABX's
>serial port, and simply transfer characters between the serial
>port and the telnet connection.
>
>We thought surely someone must be doing this *somewhere* ???

This can be done using a terminal server, such as an Annex. You can telnet
to port 5003 on an Annex and it will connect to the third serial port.

I don't know if there's software for Linux that acts as a terminal server,
but this may help your search.

cheers,

Euan.
-- 
Euan Troup, etroup@atnf.csiro.au	Australia Telescope, Parkes Observatory.
Phone: +61 68 61 1727           Fax: +61 68 61 1730
I'm not arguing with you, I'm simply pointing out the mistakes in your
arguments. -Deth

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