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jnn at webii

May 24, 2006, 12:29 PM

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conserver problem with 8-port rocket board

Hello,

I've got the PCI rocket board working great and conserver working great,
but only when using the command line console program. When I connect
remotely to my conserver port I can succesfully login and issue the
call command, which returns the appropriate port (theoretically) for
connecting to that port over the network.

e.g.

telnet console XXX
Escape character is '^]'.
ok
login user
passwd? console2
abc123
ok
call ttyR0
53768
exit
(close telnet)

telnet console 53768
Escape character is '^]'.
ok
login user
passwd? console2
abc123
ok
call ttyR0
[attached]

( from here I can enter text all day long, but I never get anything
back from the server)

However, if I just do a 'console ttyR0' from the command line on the
console server everything works fine, my serial connection to the SPARC
comes up just fine.

The console server itself is a Linux box running redhat FC5, conserver
8.1.14, with a 2.6 kernel and the latest rocketport driver for the
serial card.

Anyone seen anything similar? It's not a deal breaker but I've liked
and used the remote feature of conserver in the past and am just curious
why it isn't working.

FYI, ttyR0 refers to this entry in my conf file:

console ttyR0 {
master localhost;
type device;
device /dev/ttyR0;
baud 9600;
parity none;
}

The remote part of the conf file looks like this:

access * {
allowed 127.0.0.1;
allowed xx.xx.xx.xx; (replaced xx.xx.xx.xx with my trusted ip)
}

And my conserver.passwd has this entry, which allows me to authenticate:
*any*:*passwd*

Like I said, running 'console ttyR0' (or console whatever_interface)
from the command line works great... so it's puzzling why this isn't
working over the network.

thanks for any pointers,

--
John Newman
Systems Administrator, WebXess Inc.
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bryan at conserver

May 24, 2006, 12:39 PM

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Re: conserver problem with 8-port rocket board [In reply to]

see

https://www.conserver.com/pipermail/users/2006-March/msg00040.html

and

https://www.conserver.com/pipermail/users/2006-March/msg00033.html

it's the same issue. and, like in the first referenced post, why not
use the client?

Bryan
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jnn at webii

May 24, 2006, 12:57 PM

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Re: conserver problem with 8-port rocket board [In reply to]

On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 12:39:52PM -0700, Bryan Stansell wrote:
> see
>
> https://www.conserver.com/pipermail/users/2006-March/msg00040.html
>
> and
>
> https://www.conserver.com/pipermail/users/2006-March/msg00033.html
>
> it's the same issue. and, like in the first referenced post, why not
> use the client?

Ok, as long as it's not just something broken on my end. In fact, I
prefer to use the client. But I wonder why conserver even supports
listening on ports if the feature doesn't work...

Anyway, I still think it's great software.

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jnn at webii

May 24, 2006, 1:01 PM

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Re: conserver problem with 8-port rocket board [In reply to]

Just from reading the docs I can't quite see a way to disable conserver
from listening on ports altogether, except for the unix domain sockets
option. Is there a way to make it run without UDS or listening on tcp
sockets, so that only the console program can be used to access the
serial connections?

thanks,

--
john

On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 02:57:00PM -0500, John Newman wrote:
> On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 12:39:52PM -0700, Bryan Stansell wrote:
> > see
> >
> > https://www.conserver.com/pipermail/users/2006-March/msg00040.html
> >
> > and
> >
> > https://www.conserver.com/pipermail/users/2006-March/msg00033.html
> >
> > it's the same issue. and, like in the first referenced post, why not
> > use the client?
>
> Ok, as long as it's not just something broken on my end. In fact, I
> prefer to use the client. But I wonder why conserver even supports
> listening on ports if the feature doesn't work...
>
> Anyway, I still think it's great software.
>
> --
> John
> _______________________________________________
> users mailing list
> users [at] conserver
> https://www.conserver.com/mailman/listinfo/users

--
John Newman
Systems Administrator, WebXess Inc.
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jnn at webii

May 24, 2006, 1:04 PM

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Re: conserver problem with 8-port rocket board [In reply to]

I see maybe this doesn't make sense as it seems the console program
actually connects to the listening port.

--
john

On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 03:01:35PM -0500, John Newman wrote:
> Just from reading the docs I can't quite see a way to disable conserver
> from listening on ports altogether, except for the unix domain sockets
> option. Is there a way to make it run without UDS or listening on tcp
> sockets, so that only the console program can be used to access the
> serial connections?
>
> thanks,
>
> --
> john
>
> On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 02:57:00PM -0500, John Newman wrote:
> > On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 12:39:52PM -0700, Bryan Stansell wrote:
> > > see
> > >
> > > https://www.conserver.com/pipermail/users/2006-March/msg00040.html
> > >
> > > and
> > >
> > > https://www.conserver.com/pipermail/users/2006-March/msg00033.html
> > >
> > > it's the same issue. and, like in the first referenced post, why not
> > > use the client?
> >
> > Ok, as long as it's not just something broken on my end. In fact, I
> > prefer to use the client. But I wonder why conserver even supports
> > listening on ports if the feature doesn't work...
> >
> > Anyway, I still think it's great software.
> >
> > --
> > John
> > _______________________________________________
> > users mailing list
> > users [at] conserver
> > https://www.conserver.com/mailman/listinfo/users
>
> --
> John Newman
> Systems Administrator, WebXess Inc.
> _______________________________________________
> users mailing list
> users [at] conserver
> https://www.conserver.com/mailman/listinfo/users

--
John Newman
Systems Administrator, WebXess Inc.
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users [at] conserver
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bryan at conserver

May 24, 2006, 1:08 PM

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Re: conserver problem with 8-port rocket board [In reply to]

On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 02:57:00PM -0500, John Newman wrote:
> Ok, as long as it's not just something broken on my end. In fact, I
> prefer to use the client. But I wonder why conserver even supports
> listening on ports if the feature doesn't work...

which feature is this? no where does conserver claim to implement the
telnet protocol (at the server - it does do it's best while talking to
term servers). it does implement a telnet-like client/server protocol
(for lack of a better description). listening on ports certainly
doesn't imply telnet compatibility. and, just as you can use telnet to
interact with a web server and do queries, you happen to be able to use
telnet to interact with conserver. but in both cases you must talk the
appropriate protocol.

Bryan
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cfowler at outpostsentinel

May 24, 2006, 1:16 PM

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Re: conserver problem with 8-port rocket board [In reply to]

On Wed, 2006-05-24 at 15:01 -0500, John Newman wrote:
> Just from reading the docs I can't quite see a way to disable
> conserver
> from listening on ports altogether, except for the unix domain sockets
> option. Is there a way to make it run without UDS or listening on
> tcp
> sockets, so that only the console program can be used to access the
> serial connections?

Use iptables to only allow access from the lo interface. Thats what I
do with many programs that listen on tcp sockets that I do not want
anything external to have access to.

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