[BL] serial networking and telnet server
sindi keesan
keesan at sdf.lonestar.org
Tue Oct 19 16:41:07 EDT 2004
On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, sindi keesan wrote:
>>> Well, now I can telnet or do send/receive between two
>>> computers hooked up with ethernet cable, both in linux,
>>> but not over serial cable.
>>
>> /root/netsetup has a template for networking via serial cable.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Steven
>
> I tried that already (got that info from a web site earlier)
> Just tried it again BL3 to BL2. Won't telnet or even ping.
>
> pppd /dev/tthS0 115200 192.168.1.1:192.168.1.2 local crtscts
> registered device ppp0
> reversed the numbers on the other computer.
>
> Ping 192.168.1.1 (sends to itself in 0.0 ms)
> ping 192.168.1.2 56 data bytes - nothing happens, I hit Ctrl-C
> and 100% packet loss
>
> telnet won't work either (with in.telnetd -debug on target computer)
>
> The website said I needed to make a file /etc/ppp/options with things like
> local and crtscts in it. I will try that next.
>
> Did not help. On BL3 it just does nothing visible except tell me 56 data
> bytes, on BL2 ping tells me network is unreachable.
>
I have been reading various HOWTOs and web pages. THere is also slip,
cslip, dip and slattach and wvdial and linuxconf to set up ppp but I found
one suggestion to use ifconfig.
WHen I run ppp it tells me registered device ppp0. So on the analogy of
an ethernet network I typed:
ifconfig ppp0 192.168.1.1 192.168.1.2 (and reversed the numbers
on the other computer).
Now it pings. But will not connect via telnet (same way I tried it for
ethernet connection where telnet worked). Connection refused. Do I need
to authenticate?
I added noauth to the pppd line. Try again. Connection still refused.
I tried receive/send - connection is still refused.
One site talked about using chat to enter login and password. I have used
that in DOS to dial and connect with epppd (DOSppp). I might try this
next.
Is there some way to set this up so as not to need login and password?
With ethernet I did not need either to send files. With plip I sometimes
had this same problem if things were not set up right (using a script
without pauses, for instance).
I was reading about putting the IP address of the incoming computer into
pap-secrets so that authentication would not be required but that did not
seem to work. * * "" 192.168.1.2
Can I telnet over a plip connection? At least send/receive already work.
It would be faster but I would need to unplug the printer and I already
have a second serial port free. Serial transfer is about 10K/sec,
ethernet 1-10MB/sec and parallel was in between (1/40 of ethernet = 250K,
8x serial = 80K?) Ethernet is fine between desktop computers with linux
but gets more complicated with DOS, and laptops don't have ethernet
connections (mine don't anyway). I presume if kermit works over serial
and ethernet it will also telnet/transfer over parallel connection. As
should zmodem?
I just tried BL3 kermit for dumb terminal connection to BL2 (first
has to kill pppd which was using that serial port).
The first time I tried to connect I got a scrambled screen with
Password spelled with four upper ASCII characters. (Kermit entered my
login wrong from the .kermrc file to start with).
I exited the kermit connection and tried again and things were okay.
I then tried to run X from the dumb terminal and it put X on the OTHER
computer where I had to use the other keyboard to exit it.
Same thing for links2 graphical (svgalib).
And for seejpeg (also svgalib).
With CLI programs I can stay on the kermit end, using the original
keyboard and monitor. Even using color VGA (text mode).
Probably this has something to do with video memory.
I am using a TTL monitor at the same time and when I am NOT in dumb
terminal mode I cannot use both TTL and graphical VGA - if I switch
between terminals I lose one or the other, but if both are text mode they
both continue to display. The graphical memory (half of it) is used by
the MDA (TTL) mode.
So a dumb terminal cannot use X on my setup but probably could for people
who don't also have a TTL monitor plugged in at the same time on the dumb
terminal computer.
How does one go about using one of these two computers as an X server?
(Without server software just agetty).
Would BL3 in 4MB be able to connect to a computer with more RAM (and
monitor turned off) and run programs in X? Or even with 3MB? I can't
check this until I put it on a computer with just one (VGA) monitor.
Would a (VGA only) DOS computer with 512K and kermit also work for this?
Still don't know how to telnet over a serial cable.
Steven, did you actually have this working with BL2 or 3?
Sindi
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