Bridging console port to a telnet session

Kailas Ramasamy kailasr at gmail.com
Wed Jan 17 01:33:00 UTC 2007


Hi Mike,
Yes, that what I am planing but I want to do this dynamically. Do you know
how to launch a
telnet session from a process?. How do I pass stdin and stdout to the telnet
from a process?.

Thanks
Kailas

On 1/16/07, Mike Meyer <mwm at mired.org> wrote:
>
> In <ecd0bee40701161503k385819ddgba5562e137630617 at mail.gmail.com>, Kailas
> Ramasamy <kailasr at gmail.com> typed:
> > Hi,
> > Within a FreeBSD system, I want to telnet to another system and bridge
> that
> > session to the
> > console port so that when an user connects to the system via console
> port,
> > it is automatically
> > redirected to other system for I have already established a telnet
> session.
>
> What's wrong with simply leaving a telnet session running on the
> console, maybe with some support to relaunch it should it ever exit?
>
>         <mike
> --
> Mike Meyer <mwm at mired.org>
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