(PM) how to configure in.pmd?

Profeta, Dante (dprofeta@ismett.edu)
Mon, 10 May 1999 16:07:10 +0200

We bought some PortMaster 2e to connect several medical equipment to our
UNIX system, but we've got some problems:

UNIX O.S = AIX 4.3
in.pmd installed

in /etc/services:
pmd 1642/tcp

in /etc/inetd.conf
pmd stream tcp nowait root /usr/etc/in.pmd in.pmd

in.pmd is of course placed into /usr/etc/

We need to retrieve data from the medical equipment as they were
physically connected to the AIX box serial ports.
At this time we're doing some tests with a modem connected to a PM2e
serial port, using a p.d. software named "minicom" which is similar to
MS-Dos Telix.

The PM has been configured as below:

set s6 device /dev/ttypf
set s6 service_device portmaster
(save all)

"minicom" has been set to connect to /dev/ttypf, but there is no
connection to the modem (of course it dial perfectly to a modem
connected to /dev/tty00 [minicom configured to talk to /dev/tty00])
Same 'null' results with "cu -m -l /dev/ttypf"

Because the documentation is very poor (nothing about in.pmd), we cannot
figure out how to configure it (for example... how does in.pmd know the
IP address of the PortMaster?) and where the problem lies.

Thanks for your help

--
  Dante Profeta

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