[RndTbl] Serial to IP Gateway?

[Adam Thompson]

Conman, I think, *might* do what you need.  I do know that mgetty is the wrong tool for the job.  The feature you're looking for is called "reverse telnet", btw.
-Adam

On August 17, 2016 9:58:58 AM CDT, Wyatt Zacharias <wyatt at magitech.ca> wrote:
>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?
>
>--
>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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