Telnet access to moderately old UNIX boxes

[Jochen Kunz]

On Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:02:15 -0400
Tom Manos <tmanos at concursive.com> wrote:

> I was thinking of buying one of those  
> MagicJack thingies that give you a local number and unlimited voip  
> calling for $20 a year and setting up a modem on it.
VoIP uses (more or less) advanced codecs to encode and compress voice
audio. A modem, that expects a 1:1 "wire", will not work well on this.

You can do things like: Setup a Linux box with SSH accounts that have
somthing as cu(1) or tip(1) as login shell. Connect the serial ports of
the linux box to the old unix machines. If the old machines can speak
TCP/IP you can use telnet(1) instead cu(1) / tip(1). Or use SSH
portforwarding...
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tschüß,
       Jochen

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