Re: (PM) 10000 telnet port behavior ??

James (James@superbug.demon.co.uk)
Thu, 22 Jan 1998 00:33:04 +0000

Hello Derric
I would just set all the modems that you want in the pool to the same
port number. Say all 6000. Then you telnet to the same port number and
it just picks one that is free.
Cheers
James
> From: Derric Scott <dtscott@scott.net>
> Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 10:20:55 -0600 (CST)
> Subject: (PM) 10000 telnet port behavior ??
>
> Hello:
>
> Help!
>
> Here is an odd one, probably not used much - but I hope SOMEONE is
> conversant with it...
>
> I've got an external ASYNC RS232 device (behaving like a BBS for example)
> plugged into a PM3E30. When I setup the ports as:
> set s29 device /dev/network
> set s29 service_device 6029
> set s29 dtr off
> It works fine. A "sh netc" shows the PM is listening on that port like:
> 308 0 0 portm.dom.com.6029 0.0.0.0.0 LISTEN
> and a "telnet portm.dom.com 6029" WORKS JUST FINE.
>
> I want to put a group of them into a "pool" and the docs say that using
> port numbers in the 10000 - 10100 range will do that. However, when I set
> set s29 service_device 10015
> "sh netc" shows the port is LISTENing, BUT it will not answer on that port.
> A "telnet portm.dom.com 10015" gives:
> Trying 192.168.0.250...
> telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
> Anyone know what's up???
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