13 Dec
2009
13 Dec
'09
6:45 a.m.
Hi
Thanks to a list member with a good memory I have managed to trace and
get running a copy of Fido BBS on my DEC Rainbow.
It's just about as I had it back in 1983 as Fido_UK1. I can run it on a
modem that would have been current in'83.
I now want to make it available via telnet. I do have a windows based
application that will convert a telnet connection to an emulated modem
connection.
However what would be really nice is to hook up a DECServer 200/mc to
convert an incoming Telnet call to a port emulating a modem.
That means the Rainbow would think it was connected to a modem. Connection
should be indicated by asserting DCD.
Is it possible? If so how?
Regards
Rod Smallwood
13 Dec
13 Dec
8:50 a.m.
It's just about as I had it back in 1983 as
Fido_UK1. I can
run it on a modem that would have been current in'83.
I now want to make it available via telnet. I do have a
windows based application that will convert a telnet
connection to an emulated modem connection.
However what would be really nice is to hook up a DECServer
200/mc to convert an incoming Telnet call to a port emulating
a modem.
That means the Rainbow would think it was connected to a
modem. Connection should be indicated by asserting DCD.
The DECserver 200, to the best of my recollection, only supports
LAT on the network side.
You could, perhaps, terminate the telnet session on a host and
feed that into a permanent LAT port. You'd have to write a noddy
serving prgram to achieve that, I think.
Antonio
10:47 a.m.
Rod Smallwood wrote:
Hi
Thanks to a list member with a good memory I have managed to trace and
get running a copy of Fido BBS on my DEC Rainbow.
It's just about as I had it back in 1983 as Fido_UK1. I can run it on a
modem that would have been current in'83.
I now want to make it available via telnet. I do have a windows based
application that will convert a telnet connection to an emulated modem
connection.
However what would be really nice is to hook up a DECServer 200/mc to
convert an incoming Telnet call to a port emulating a modem.
That means the Rainbow would think it was connected to a modem. Connection
should be indicated by asserting DCD.
Is it possible? If so how?
I don't know anything about the DECServer .... however you might
be able to do this with Livingston (later Lucent) Portmaster 2. The
only part I don't know about is DCD.
I have succesfully used these in the past to provide serial console
access via
telnet sessions.
There was an earlier portmaster (portmaster 11 ???? (my memory is
lacking here))
that booted from a floppy. I've got one buried around here.... and I
tinkered with
it a bit... it lacks some features of the PM2... but as I recall you
could do the same
thing with it.... the Portmaster 2 would be easier to find however.
-- Curt
Regards
Rod Smallwood
6:41 p.m.
On 13/12/2009 18:45, Al Kossow wrote:
On 12/13/09 7:47 AM, Curtis H. Wilbar Jr. wrote:
but as I recall you
> could do the same
> thing with it.... the Portmaster 2 would be easier to find however.
Livingston Portmaster or Encore Annex/Microannex were
commonly used
TCP/IP milking machines.
I still use an Annex for consoles on a few of my machines (like some of
the PDP-11s). They were made by Xylogics, later bought by Bay Networks
=> Nortel and are sometimes to be found rebadged by Sun. They're very
versatile, and you can use the ports in all sorts of ways.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
14 Dec
14 Dec
10:32 a.m.
Al Kossow wrote:
On 12/13/09 7:47 AM, Curtis H. Wilbar Jr. wrote:
but as I recall you
Even the later DECservers can do it.
Peace... Sridhar
could do the same
thing with it.... the Portmaster 2 would be easier to find however.
Livingston Portmaster or Encore Annex/Microannex were commonly used
TCP/IP milking machines. 
13 Dec
13 Dec
12:02 p.m.
On Dec 13, 2009, at 6:45 AM, Rod Smallwood wrote:
Thanks to a list member with a good memory I have
managed to
trace and
get running a copy of Fido BBS on my DEC Rainbow.
It's just about as I had it back in 1983 as Fido_UK1. I can run it
on a
modem that would have been current in'83.
I now want to make it available via telnet. I do have a windows based
application that will convert a telnet connection to an emulated modem
connection.
However what would be really nice is to hook up a DECServer 200/mc to
convert an incoming Telnet call to a port emulating a modem.
That means the Rainbow would think it was connected to a modem.
Connection
should be indicated by asserting DCD.
Is it possible? If so how?
Not really, no...the DECserver-200 family doesn't speak TCP/IP,
only LAT.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
14 Dec
14 Dec
3:17 a.m.
On Sun, 13 Dec 2009 11:45:21 -0000
"Rod Smallwood" <rodsmallwood at btconnect.com> wrote:
However what would be really nice is to hook up a
DECServer 200/mc to
convert an incoming Telnet call to a port emulating a modem.
AFAIK and IIRC the
DECserver 200 does not support this feature. (Isn't
the '200 LAT only?) The later DECserver 700 should be able to do this.
I use a "no name" terminal server for remote console access of
developement machines. Telnet to a speciffic TCP port opens a serial
connection to the console of the machine. DTR / DSR of the terminal
server changes level when a connection is active. I use this to switch
on the developement machine via a solid state relais. So it should not
be impossible to achieve what you need.
--
tsch??,
Jochen
Homepage: http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz/
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