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Re: telnet-server under ECOS
- To: Grant Edwards <grante at visi dot com>
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] telnet-server under ECOS
- From: Gary Thomas <gthomas at cambridge dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 11:04:39 -0600 (MDT)
- Cc: ecos-discuss at sourceware dot cygnus dot com,Marek Lacki <lacki at rts dot com dot pl>
- Organization: Red Hat, Inc.
On 23-Apr-2001 Grant Edwards wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 06:26:45AM -0600, Gary Thomas wrote:
>
>> > I need telnet-server sources under eCos. Who can help me ?
>> > marek lacki@rts.com.pl
>>
>> We have no "telnet server", per se, as this makes little sense for the
>> eCos world.
>>
>> Exactly what were you wanting to do with it?
>
> Many embedded devices have character mode command interfaces
> for status/control through "console" serial ports. The same
> interfaces work quite well via telnet. E.g. you telnet into a
> router or printer or whatever to configure it instead of going
> the web-page route. I can manage a usable telnet session on my
> PalmPilot. Trying to do web stuff is generally pretty futile.
Agreed. For this level of usage, the telnet code in RedBoot is
possibly sufficient or certainly a starting point.
If the desired usage is more complex, e.g. a stand-alone server
which "runs tasks", etc [which I expect is what the original query
was for], we don't really have such a thing for eCos, simply because
it doesn't make sense in the environment we target.
[Actually, RedBoot could be considered such a beast, but that is
another matter :-)]