Re: Serial port redirection

Corey Minyard
2003-12-03T13:45:32Z

Jeffrey Altman wrote:

> The reality is RFC is experimental and not authoritative. The only
> thing that really counts is what Cisco actually shipped in their IOS
> implementation. Lucky me I actually have a terminal
> server that implements it. If you look at the C-Kermit sources you
> will see that the client is written to accept both values from the
> server. You will also find that Cisco does not send the baudrates as
> specified in the RFC but instead uses an enumeration.

True. But if I had been lucky and had a terminal server, I would not
have written ser2net :).

So Cisco uses a enumeration? Do you think it is possible to make them
compatible and do both in ser2net, or is it a non-issue?

>
>
> With regards to the comment about the use of separate codes to
> indicate direction, this was written without a good understanding of
> the Telnet Option negotiation. The reality is that there is no need
> for a telnet protocol option to have separate commands for each
> direction as the option itself must be negotiated separately in each
> direction. Therefore, there is no possibility of confusion.

Also true. It seemed silly to have it this way.

-Corey

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