bschmidt@bnr.ca (Ben Schmidt) (10/16/90)
cisco has an ncsa telnet hacked to support SLIP, just add hardware=slipN, where N is the bps connection rate, eg. hardware=slip9600. trouble is you need a terminal emulator to make the connection to the terminal server. tried kermit and freeterm but after i dial into the terminal server, and try to switch to cisco telnet, they either fight with cisco for control of the serial port, or don't give it up at all. If I switch back to the terminal emulator and select quit, it closes the serial connection before quitting. so what i need is something quick and dirty to open a serial connection, which doesn't close that connection when I quit from it and launch cisco telnet. I'd sure prefer if it ran at 19200, 8 bits, no parity. :^ ) any advice? Ben Schmidt Bell-Northern Research, Ltd. Ph: (613) 763-3906 Information Technology P.O. Box 3511, Station C FAX:(613) 763-3283 bschmidt@bnr.ca Ottawa Ontario Canada K1Y 4H7
USERGIF@mtsg.ubc.ca (10/16/90)
I have used MacTerminal and QDial to establish a connection before running Telnet. I do have to quit the term program to prevent it from fighting for the serial port, but the line is not dropped. I suspect that you need to change the DTR setting on your modem so that it doesn't drop the connection. Then, you should be able to dial with Kermit or FreeTerm, quit and then run Telnet. It sure would be nice if someone hacked a dialing utility into the Cisco hacked Telnet. Oh well, what can we expect for nothing? :)