From: Shaggish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> My office is currently migrating to a completely Linux solution. Part of
> that solution involves diskless terminals running ltsp software. On one
> of these terminals, I'm going to need to hook up a printer and a radio
> modem. The printer should be no problem (as discussed in the docs), but
> I'm not sure how one would get the server to transparently use the
> serial port (for the radio modem) of a remote terminal instead of its
> own ports. It seems like there should be some way to define the
> terminal's ports as /dev/somethingorother on the server. Is this
> possible? If not, what would it take to make it possible?
If I understand you right, that machine is acting as part of the infrastructure
of your network services, rather than as a plain terminal. If so, I personally
would make it completely standalone by installing a minimal distribution on it,
so it can fulfil its network function when the LTSP server is down, and then
set up the X server in the distro to go to the LTSP for login like the terminals.
Many distributions include the package "mserver" that offers modems to your net.
If the modem isn't a network service, you can expose it as a TCP port in the
inetd.conf file and have the daemon started on that computer. The program
NetCat (command line nc), for example, will do nicely to forward the traffic.
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