Re: Serial port redirection

Peter Astrand
2003-12-05T09:19:08Z

> 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.
>
> 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.

Perhaps we should make a new, updated RFC? It could include this vital
information, as well as give advice on how to handle the different cases.

--
Peter Åstrand www.thinlinc.com
Cendio www.cendio.se
Teknikringen 3 Phone: +46-13-21 46 00
583 30 Linköping

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-serial" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html