[sclug] Exporting a terminal over the network

[iso at isorox.co.uk]

Morning all!

We have a computer running vxWorks that you can talk to via a serial port.
Naturally I plugged it in to my nice shiny new debian box and did a "cat
/dev/ttyR0" (Rocket multi-port card). That wasn't very pretty.

So I investigated a little more and downloaded kermit. A few settings later
(set line /dev/ttyR0
SET CARRIER-WATCH OFF
set flow xon/xoff
set speed 19200)

and I could connect. Hurray!

Additionally I found a program called "socat", which would allow me to
export a tty over the network as a telnet session. I could put ttyR0-47 on
telnet ports 3000-30047 and the world would be heppy. Trouble is socat
doesnt support all that xon/xoff loveliness I need.

Ultimatly I want something that will give two-way communication to this
device via a telnet port, and simultaneously log all the output both ways.

I plan to try and string something together with kermit and socat, but I
wondered if anyone had done anything similar?

Yours, in skanky London babysitting a system that will not fall over, Paul