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From: contact!umb!gplan@husc6.harvard.edu (George A. Planansky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: kermit from SunOS to ethernet?
Keywords: Networks
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Date: 30 Mar 89 22:05:02 GMT
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Kermit asks for a "line", being a /dev/tty#, to get out of a Unix machine.
Our Unix machines have no available serial ports, as we connect to them
via their ethernet controllers.  We DO have 3COM (Bridge) CS210
communications servers (tcp/ip) connected on our ethernet, so we can
connect, modems, etc. through these servers to ethernet.  

Thus I can use the Unix telnet command to connect to a modem interactively, 
and I can pipe through a telnet script:
   #
   cat | (telnet modem.address) >>& modem.log
to a modem.  But I cannot start Kermit and get to a modem or to
anything else on ethernet.

QUESTION:  how can I get to an ethernet address, with kermit, from Unix?
Oddly, this "simple" thing is darned elusive. 

I can get email at:  gplan@ra.umb.edu.
Otherwise I am George Planansky, at Atmosphere Environment Research,
840 Memorial Drive, Cambridge MA 02138, USA; phone (617) 547-6207.