Re: A2 BBS via Mac serial connection

["Smohn Jith" <khorster@optonline.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 
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> 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.
>>