Re: Put your BBS back online with MagicJack?

["Don" <numberfiveplusone@gmail.com>]

"Terry Olsen" <tolsen64@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
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>I had my BBS online for a year using a hardware device called an "ethernet 
>modem". It acted like a modem to the computer and was a telnet server on 
>the internet. Worked really well with my METAL BBS on the Apple IIgs. The 
>major problem was that file transfers using x/y/z-modem would not work at 
>all. There was someone, can't remember his name, that had his IIgs hooked 
>up directly to a serial port on a cisco router and configured the router to 
>direct telnet traffic on port 6502 to the IIgs. File transfers worked 
>great. Unfortunately, it did not detect dropped-carrier and would sit there 
>until it timed out if someone dumped.
>
> I have also wrote my own software as a go-between called "Internet Modem", 
> available here: http://boycot.no-ip.com/InternetModem/
>
> It works pretty well also, but just like the ethernet modem, x/y/z-modem 
> doesn't work at all... That's why I was thinking about going back to the 
> old way with modems and phone lines...but I'm seeing from the conversation 
> that there's no hope for that either....
>
>
> "Boot Zero" <apple@bidlink.net> wrote in message 
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>>
>> Greg at Age of Reason (telnet: aor.retroarchive.org) is running GBBS Pro 
>> using tcpser.  It emulates a Hayes compatible modem for the Apple, and 
>> uses a serial->usb cable to send / receive via tcp/ip.
>>
>> I have had some success in tests with GBBS using tcpser4j, which appears 
>> to be the follow-up to tcpser, but written in Java.  It even can play 
>> .wav files for dial tone, ringing, etc.  It can alias phone #'s, so you 
>> can use atdt5165551212 to get to your favorite IP address.
>>
>> The problem I have encountered with reviving old BBS software is that 
>> some of the early stuff had drivers written for specific hardware, ie: 
>> Nexus only supports Micromodem and Apple-Cat.  I am still trying to find 
>> a suitable Hayes compatible driver that can be hacked into these old DOS 
>> BBSs like Apple-Net, Networx ][, Nexus, Tele-Cat, Pro-Connect and others.
>>
>> -BZ
>

I managed to get X-Modem to work with my TBBS system, but it required 
messing with the PC-DOS NIC driver settings.  I think the issue was too 
small a buffer on the NIC which would cause it to fragment the file transfer 
packets.  I bumped up the buffer size and managed to get X-Modem to work, 
Y/G-modem still wouldn't work, but I think that may be because they use, yet 
again, bigger buffer sizes.

It's interesting to sniff the packets when you run a telnet/modem translator 
... the full duplex character-by-character BBS traffic makes for a *very* 
chatty telnet stream. :-)

-- 
be seeing you ... Don
Don Melton, Sr. Consultant, Vatic Technologies Limited