Re: Telnet BBS Interface

[Scarlet Otter <SecretaryBird@MYTAILFEATHERSSoftHome.net>]

Luis de Santos <desantos@cfl.rr.nospam.com> wrote in
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> 
> 
> 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?

Freesco should be able to do the job.  It's a single-floppy Linux 
implementation that is primarily used as a dialup router.

You can download it as well as find out much more information here:

http://www.freesco.org/

Tinkering around with port forwarding in NAT, the built-in firewall, I was 
able to have someone telnet in to one of my Linux practice boxes.  It 
shouldn't be too difficult to set up port forwarding to direct a telnet 
request to, say, a COM port which could be connected to an Apple II running 
a BBS proggy.  I haven't got that far myself and havent experimented any 
further due to having too many other things to do.  But I do highly 
recommend giving Freesco a look and try it out.

-- Otter