[RndTbl] Serial to IP Gateway?

[Wyatt Zacharias]

Thanks for the suggestions everyone. To clarify, the goal of moving to a
linux box or other appliance is two-fold. One is to get rid of the EOL
cisco routers, the other is also to get rid of the shelf full of modems
that are plugged into the routers, and this makes things a bit more
complicated. There are a couple makers of internal modem cards that have
tens or hundreds of modems integrated into one pci card, and this is where
the need for a linux box comes in. Once all these modems are inside a
server, I need to replicate the functionality of the cisco routers, which
takes the raw serial input from each modem, and forwards it out over telnet
to a predefined destination.

I've been working with mgetty the last couple days, and I've gotten pretty
close to something that works. At the moment when you connect to my test
pc's serial port, it will prompt for the username and then initiate a
telnet session for you. Now how can I get mgetty to skip the login prompt
entirely and go right to telnet? Any ideas?

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Wyatt Zacharias


On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 4:56 AM, Hartmut W Sager <hwsager at marityme.net>
wrote:

> > Bluecross will be using POTS modems until the end of time.
>
> ROTFL!  Hey, at least they're not using POTTS (= plain old telephone and
> telegraph system).
>
> > I have had customers who still use DOS(!!) programs to .....
>
> Me too, before I and those customers parted ways.
>
> > (It's kind of like POTS interac terminals, they are still all over the
> place.)
>
> Yes, I still run into those with considerable frequency too!  And they're
> either tying up a whole dedicated (and expensive) POTS line, or sharing a
> POTS voice line.
>
> > That said, I kind of like POTS modems!  Ah, the good ol' days.
>
> Yeah, they make that sound of pterodactyls while they're interchanging
> carriers and protocols before the real communications session.
>
> Hartmut W Sager - Tel +1-204-339-8331
>
>
> On 17 August 2016 at 04:11, Trevor Cordes <trevor at tecnopolis.ca> wrote:
>
>> On 2016-08-15 Colin Stanners wrote:
>> > Do the remote sites that dial in have IP connectivity? How about
>> > putting serial to IP converters at that end of the connection and
>> > dropping the POTS?
>>
>> Bluecross will be using POTS modems until the end of time.  I have had
>> customers who still use DOS(!!) programs to submit reimbursement
>> requests to them.  Best they can hope for is to whittle the numbers
>> down and pray they disappear.  (It's kind of like POTS interac
>> terminals, they are still all over the place.)
>>
>> That said, I kind of like POTS modems!  Ah, the good ol' days.
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