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Re: Telnet BBS Interface
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In article <quntmvs2enfgv51jn4sd94t2jrlsraocpr@4ax.com>,
Luis de Santos <desantos@cfl.rr.nospam.com> wrote:
>On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 06:08:30 GMT, salfter@salfter.dyndns.org (Scott
>Alfter) wrote:
>>As for the security risk...as long as your "bridge" machine is not running
>>Windows, you're most of the way there. One possibility would be to dredge
>>up an old 386 or 486, yank out the hard drive (or just unplug the cables to
>>it...it'll probably be so small it's not worth reusing), and put a
>>lightweight Linux system on a floppy disk. The only moving part in normal
>>use will be the power-supply fan, and power usage will be fairly low...not
>>as low as your II, but still low by modern standards.
>
>Damn, beat me to the question! I was going to ask if there was a
>Linux solution to all this - I really don't want to use my primary
>(work) PC as the bridge. I'm sure TCL could be used to accomplish
>this. Any ideas?
Don't know about TCL (don't even really know what it is). The
quick-and-dirty solution would be to try running netcat on /dev/ttyS? from
/etc/inittab...but you probably want to emulate a modem, or at least send
CONNECT and NO CARRIER at the beginning and end of a connection. For that,
I'd knock something together in C or C++, but that's just a matter of
sticking with what I know.
There's a fair chance that someone's already written a program that'll do
what you want...you might try searching Sourceforge or Freshmeat.
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