gplan@husc6.harvard.edu (George A. Planansky) (03/31/89)
Kermit asks for a "line", being a /dev/tty#, to get out of a Unix machine. Our Unix machines have no available serial ports, as we connect to them via their ethernet controllers. We DO have 3COM (Bridge) CS210 communications servers (tcp/ip) connected on our ethernet, so we can connect, modems, etc. through these servers to ethernet. Thus I can use the Unix telnet command to connect to a modem interactively, and I can pipe through a telnet script: # cat | (telnet modem.address) >>& modem.log to a modem. But I cannot start Kermit and get to a modem or to anything else on ethernet. QUESTION: how can I get to an ethernet address, with kermit, from Unix? Oddly, this "simple" thing is darned elusive. I can get email at: gplan@ra.umb.edu. Otherwise I am George Planansky, at Atmosphere Environment Research, 840 Memorial Drive, Cambridge MA 02138, USA; phone (617) 547-6207.