Analog modem question Help - thanks!

Pete Bartusek pbmain at wideopenwest.com
Wed Aug 3 09:48:48 CDT 2005


Thanks everyone for their help with the Analog phone line/modem/pbx/term 
server/etc question I had!  Really helpful!!

I've got a few different ways to go about it now.  I think I'll keep an eye 
out for a small analog PBX...again, I'm locked to the analog modems on my 
target system - it's an older machine and the software isn't adjustable for 
other modems, nor does it have the capability to add multiple serial ports to 
go with external modems.  Even if I could get multiple serial ports, I'm 
working with software that lets me chose 1 of two brands of internal modem... 
Without reworking the code, which i'm in no way a programmer, would quite an 
undertaking right now..

My first step is tracking down a Term server that would translate the 
internet telnet requests to trigger a DTR drop, which will in turn trigger 
the external modem to dial out....OR....incorporating the analog modem into 
the term server to dial out without needing external modems and cables.  This 
is all through "reverse telnet" from what I gathered? Does anyone have any 
suggestions of models?  The Portmaster 2 or 2e sounded like a possibility... 
not sure if there were others, or perhaps instead of the external modems 
there was a cheap modem bank system out there, so I could tie the term server 
to the modem bank, and the modem bank would have analog lines coming out of 
it that would go to my PBX?

Pete



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