Craig Small's ttylink Daemon

Name

ttylinkd - a ttylink daemon for Linux.

Author

Craig Small, VK2XLZ, <csmall@triode.apana.org.au>

Description

A daemon to accept a ttylink (port 87) tcp/ip connection and convert it into a talk request for a user on the host machine. This may also be configured for use with the ax25d program so that AX.25 users may also make use of it to connect to you.

Status

Alpha, but working.

System requirements

Kernel networking support with AX.25 support if desired.

Details

Because the talk protocol is a non-standard, that is it isn't actually defined anywhere (except the source), the ttylink protocol from NOS has become the defacto standard, at least for amateurs, to provide keyboard to keyboard communication over tcp/ip. This daemon fills the need for something to answer ttylink requests to linux machines.

To build and install the software, I did:

# cd /usr/src
# tar xvfz ttylinkd-0.02.tar.gz
# cd ttylinkd-0.02
<edited the Makefile to change the SYSOP_USER>
# make
# cp ttylink /usr/sbin
<edited /etc/service, /etc/inetd.conf as instructed in README>
# killall -1 inetd

Where and How to obtain it

You can obtain the latest version of ttylinkd from: sunsite.unc.edu or ftp.ucsd.edu.

License

GNU Public License vers 2.0