From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Juhani Pirttilahti" Subject: Telnet to serial port Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 14:13:04 +0300 Sender: linux-msdos-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <200407091413040956.0115912C@smtp.ebaana.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-msdos@vger.kernel.org I've got to run PCBoard under dosemu, works like a charm in local mode. There is still a problem. Lets say I want to run 5 instances of dosemu + pcboard, I need then a telnet server, which maintains connections to these 5 instances. In dosemu, first instance of PCBoard should be on port COM1 and second on COM2 and so on... In telnet server there should be a virtual modem emulator for each port. (done by threads) When someone connects to server, it checks for first free instance/port and it should then send commands to the serial port like a modem while PCBoard should answer to incoming "call". How it would work: Internet <-> Telnet server <-> Node selection (one from 1..5) <-> Virtual modem emulation layer #1..5 <-> dosemu #1..5 (redirects virtual modem device/file to COM1..5) <-> PCBoard #1..5 on COM1..5 Telnet server software (for linux) working like this does not yet exist. Someone will have to write one. :) Do you people have any other ideas or thoughs about this?