Once again, I have not seen this work! I was however interested enough to
read the entire document and remember it for the last couple of years.
If you can dial into a PMx and get a passthrough connection to a Linux
server (ie. Telnet, Rlogin, or Livingston's proprietary system) from a
Linux server then this should work. Without rewriting the ComOS (actually
the Telnet daemon in the ComOS) to add this feature, there is NO way that
a PMx will perform this task. It should however pass off all of the
necessary information to the host you were passed off to thereby allowing
the server to perform this little trick.
The bottom line is that this is probably more work than it is worth!!!
On Wed, 27 Aug 1997, Adam Goryachev wrote:
> John Storms wrote:
> >
> > At 07:42 AM 8/25/97 -0700, Jason Godsey wrote:
> > >
> > >is it possible to have the pm3 establish a ppp connection via telnet?
> > I
> > >am currently trying to do it via pppd in bsb but cannot seem to get
> > the
> > >routing correct
> >
> > The reason this will not work is because Telnet is a network
> > application
> > that requires a TCP socket. In order to have a TCP socket you must
> > have a
> > network connection which is obtained by negotiating PPP. So your
> > prblem
> > have a "which comes first, the chicken or the egg?" syndrome.
>
> After seeing a number of these type of responses to this question, I again find
> myself thinking, "Is that what he really wanted to do??", and I come up with
> the following:
> Maybe what he meant is "Can I get a telnet session between the portmaster and
> 'some other machine' and then run PPP over that telnet session, ie, doing what
> IPIP does... The answer is, I doubt it very much, certainly you could do this
> between two *NIX boxes, but very very unlikely including one or both ends with
> a portmaster....
>
> Perhaps someone else can comment on that???
>
> Regards,
> Adam Goryachev
> adamg@dot.net.au
>
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