Re: A2 BBS via Mac serial connection

[gpnz@yahoo.com.au (Gavin Picknell)]

Cool. If you wouldnt mind I'd like to have a look at the config from
your router. I have an old 1600 here and I must admit that I never
thought of using it in the way you are and am interested in giving it
a go.

Feel free to pull/blank out any address information in your config
before emailing/posting.

Cheers,

"Smohn Jith" <khorster@optonline.net> wrote in message news:<96Ufd.33574$bz4.9198055@news4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net>...
> I have a Cisco 1700 or 1706 I believe router.  These are pretty pricey, even 
> used, but mine was a throwaway from a friend.  I believe that 1005 will 
> work, although I haven't tried it yet.  I have it hooked up to an Apple 
> //gs, using a standard modem cable and a null modem adapter hooked to the 
> serial port.  I have the console hooked to my PC so I can config on the fly. 
> I didn't get involved in some of the heavy duty config, a friend helped me 
> out with that.  The hardest part is setting up the routing tables, which I'm 
> kinda clueless on.  To get the telnet to work, on my main house router it 
> forwards the port to the BBS router address at port 2005, which is the 
> serial line.  The routers are hooked up with regular cat 5, and I can also 
> go backwards through the serial port, and use the router as a telnet app, or 
> the router can also do PPP or SLIP and I have been successful connecting 
> Marinetti up to it, so it's almost like an ethernet adapter.  There are 
> online manuals on how to configure Cisco routers, I only know the basics.  I 
> can probably dump the config and email it to people who want it.  My BBS is 
> not currently open to the public because I'm still killing all the bugs, and 
> have a pretty good crop of people blowtorching it daily for me.
> 
> "Gavin Picknell" <gpnz@yahoo.com.au> wrote in message 
> d545131a.0410271046.20b8622d@posting.google.com">news:d545131a.0410271046.20b8622d@posting.google.com...
> > Hi,
> >
> > Sounds interesting. If you get a chance any possibility of posting how
> > you got it to work? I'm interested to know which port on the router
> > (serial or console - I assume the serial?) you have your II connected
> > to and how (if at all) you had to hack your cable. Also interested to
> > hear about the challenges in the config and how you got around
> > them/got it working.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > "Smohn Jith" <khorster@optonline.net> wrote in message 
> > news:<f9Cfd.26083$bz4.6225415@news4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net>...
> >> I currently have my //gs connected to the internet via an old Cisco 
> >> Router.
> >> You can reverse telnet to it directly through a port.  Works flawlessly. 
> >> I
> >> also don't have to have 2 computers running at once.  The router has a
> >> serial port and an RJ45 so it's basically, plug and then configure, which 
> >> is
> >> a little tricky....
> >>
> >> Transfer have worked, although transfers through telnet depend on 
> >> timeouts
> >> and if you have a bad connection Xmodem/Ymodem don't work.  Kermit is
> >> supposed to be better, but I'm running a test METAL based BBS which 
> >> doesn't
> >> have Kermit.
> >>