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From: fdc@columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Subject: Re: impossible telnet task ??
Date: 19 Feb 2001 20:54:53 GMT
Organization: Columbia University
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To: kermit.misc@columbia.edu
In article <Ovfk6.339$9d.45457@newshog.newsread.com>,
Glenn Sherman <gsherman@no_spam.m20.net> wrote:
: I don't believe what I want to do is possible
: - but I don't know much either.
:
: Here is what I would like to do...
: ( kind of like net2phone - but net2modem )
:
: ( background )
: I have a unix (Qnx) server that has a modem connected to /dev/ser1.
: I am running 'modem' on the server to answer incoming calls.
: I dial into the server from my windows computer with K95 using a
: standard phone line.
:
: ( desire )
: I want to keep the server as is.
: I want to be able to continue to dial into the server like I currently
: do.
:
: I want to also be able to somehow connect from another site which has a
: DSL line ( or cable internet )
:
: Is there any way to dial into a remote modem through a permanent internet
: connection???
: I can call a friend accross the country using my PC with net2phone.
: Can I call a modem??
:
If I'm not mistaken, the dialing-in part of this question is a red herring.
Clearly, you can use C-Kermit to dial out from your QNX PC, no matter whether
you are sitting at its physical keyboard and screen or you are coming into it
via Telnet or other networking method, provided the QNX is configured to
allow both incoming and outbound calls (which is a QNX sysadmin question
that I can't answer).
But can you use the QNX modem *directly* from Kermit 95? No. But you can
Telnet from K95 to QNX, start C-Kermit on QNX, and dial out from there. The
result is the same but an extra step is required.
I don't think you would want to be able to use the QNX modem directly from
K95, because if you could do it, anybody could do it, and therefore anybody
could run up charges on your phone bill. The extra step of logging in to
QNX and dialing out with C-Kermit ensures that only somebody who knows
a QNX user ID and password can call out.
By the way, C-Kermit 7.0 can log outbound modem calls in syslog, so you
can find out (when you get your phone bill) who made what calls to what
numbers.
- Frank