modems on terminal servers?

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 > 
 > I can't say for sure, but I think it should work -- we run about 8 modems
 > on a terminal server in a company here, connected over TCP/IP to an AIX
 > box. This is by fare more reliable than directly connected modems
 > (AIX...!).
 > 
 > Mgetty doesn't need to know about this, all is handled by the terminal
 > server software. Thus, there is no support for it in mgetty either...

so just to help complete my understanding -- 
 1) does mgetty need full modem control (via the hardware signals) over
	the modem?
 2) does mgetty, when it opens the "device", need to be able to do
	tty ioctl commands to it?
 3) or is the AT command set sufficient to do everything it needs to do? 

if the answer to 1 or 2 is yes, then i need to run the vendor's pty-creator,
which makes a pty that "shadows" the real port on the terminal server. if
the answer to 3 is yes, i can run a much simpler daemon that transfers data
but not ioctl information (and that i have source for :-).

paul
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 paul fox, pgf@foxharp.boston.ma.us (arlington, ma)
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