• TCPSer

    From Joacim Melin@21:2/130 to All on Monday, January 25, 2021 20:28:48
    Hi all,

    has anyone used TCPSER to hook up an old style POTS modem and then use TCPSER to initiate a telnet connection to a BBS?



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  • From Gamgee@21:2/138 to Joacim Melin on Monday, January 25, 2021 13:56:00
    Joacim Melin wrote to All <=-

    has anyone used TCPSER to hook up an old style POTS modem and
    then use TCPSER to initiate a telnet connection to a BBS?

    Yes, on a Raspberry Pi. Works like a champ.



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  • From Joacim Melin@21:2/130 to Gamgee on Monday, January 25, 2021 21:13:46
    Joacim Melin wrote to All <=-

    has anyone used TCPSER to hook up an old style POTS modem and
    then use TCPSER to initiate a telnet connection to a BBS?

    Yes, on a Raspberry Pi. Works like a champ.

    So I can do something like ./tcpser -d /dev/ttyS0 -s 38400 -D localhost:2323 and it will answer incoming calls and then telnet to localhost on port 2323?



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  • From Al@21:4/106.1 to Joacim Melin on Monday, January 25, 2021 14:55:52
    Re: TCPSer
    By: Joacim Melin to All on Mon Jan 25 2021 08:28 pm

    has anyone used TCPSER to hook up an old style POTS modem and then use TCPSER to initiate a telnet connection to a BBS?

    I'm not sure what TCPSER is. Synchronet has a utility (SEXPOTS) that will answer your modem and pass the connection to your telnet BBS.

    There is a windows download on Vertrauen, and I think I have it around here as well.

    Ttyl :-),
    Al

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  • From Gamgee@21:2/138 to Joacim Melin on Monday, January 25, 2021 20:21:00
    Joacim Melin wrote to Gamgee <=-

    Joacim Melin wrote to All <=-

    has anyone used TCPSER to hook up an old style POTS modem and
    then use TCPSER to initiate a telnet connection to a BBS?

    Yes, on a Raspberry Pi. Works like a champ.

    So I can do something like ./tcpser -d /dev/ttyS0 -s 38400 -D localhost:2323 and it will answer incoming calls and then telnet
    to localhost on port 2323?

    That looks correct... I mis-read your original question a little,
    because I use it on a MSDOS computer running a (DOS) BBS, so the
    incoming telnet "call" is translated to serial (by tcpser on the RPi).
    On one of the USB connectors of the Pi, I have a USB-to-serial
    adapter, which connects to the serial port of the DOS computer with a
    standard 9-pin serial cable.

    The command line I run on the RPi for this is:
    sudo tcpser -d /dev/ttyUSB0 -s 57600 -p 23 -i "Z" &

    So your scenario is actually going "the other direction" if I'm
    reading it right. A quick glance at the man page would seem to
    indicate your command line is correct, or at least close. I take it
    that is not working though?

    There is reasonably good documentation out there for it, one place to
    look at is:
    http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man1/tcpser.1.html



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  • From Joacim Melin@21:2/130 to Al on Tuesday, January 26, 2021 09:48:10
    Re: TCPSer
    By: Joacim Melin to All on Mon Jan 25 2021 08:28 pm

    has anyone used TCPSER to hook up an old style POTS modem and then use
    TCPSER to initiate a telnet connection to a BBS?

    I'm not sure what TCPSER is. Synchronet has a utility (SEXPOTS) that
    will answer your modem and pass the connection to your telnet BBS.

    There is a windows download on Vertrauen, and I think I have it around
    here as well.

    Very interesting - mind sending it to me?


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  • From Joacim Melin@21:2/130 to Al on Tuesday, January 26, 2021 10:10:34
    Re: TCPSer
    By: Joacim Melin to All on Mon Jan 25 2021 08:28 pm

    has anyone used TCPSER to hook up an old style POTS modem and then use
    TCPSER to initiate a telnet connection to a BBS?

    I'm not sure what TCPSER is. Synchronet has a utility (SEXPOTS) that
    will answer your modem and pass the connection to your telnet BBS.

    There is a windows download on Vertrauen, and I think I have it around
    here as well.

    Found it! Seems to work very well. Thanks for the advice!

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  • From Al@21:4/106.1 to Joacim Melin on Tuesday, January 26, 2021 01:27:16
    Re: Re: TCPSer
    By: Joacim Melin to Al on Tue Jan 26 2021 09:48 am

    There is a windows download on Vertrauen, and I think I have it
    around here as well.

    Very interesting - mind sending it to me?

    spots128.zip is in your inbound.

    Ttyl :-),
    Al

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  • From Al@21:4/106.1 to Joacim Melin on Tuesday, January 26, 2021 01:28:32
    Re: Re: TCPSer
    By: Joacim Melin to Al on Tue Jan 26 2021 10:10 am

    Found it! Seems to work very well. Thanks for the advice!

    Glad you found it, now you have 2 copies.. :)

    Ttyl :-),
    Al

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  • From Joacim Melin@21:2/130 to Al on Wednesday, January 27, 2021 19:30:52
    Re: Re: TCPSer
    By: Joacim Melin to Al on Tue Jan 26 2021 10:10 am

    Found it! Seems to work very well. Thanks for the advice!

    Glad you found it, now you have 2 copies.. :)

    Ttyl :-),
    Al

    Thanks!


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  • From Digital Man@21:1/183 to Joacim Melin on Saturday, January 30, 2021 23:01:20
    Re: Re: TCPSer
    By: Joacim Melin to Al on Tue Jan 26 2021 09:48 am

    Re: TCPSer
    By: Joacim Melin to All on Mon Jan 25 2021 08:28 pm

    has anyone used TCPSER to hook up an old style POTS modem and then use
    TCPSER to initiate a telnet connection to a BBS?

    I'm not sure what TCPSER is. Synchronet has a utility (SEXPOTS) that will answer your modem and pass the connection to your telnet BBS.

    There is a windows download on Vertrauen, and I think I have it around here as well.

    Very interesting - mind sending it to me?

    https://wiki.synchro.net/util:sexpots
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