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   Message 2,944 of 3,371   
   Tommi Koivula to Sean Dennis   
   VMODEM   
   19 Aug 19 17:05:12   
   
   MSGID: 2:221/6.0 5d5aac96   
   REPLY: 1:18/200 5d5989e5   
   PID: SmapiNNTPd/Linux/IPv6 1.3 20190808   
   CHRS: IBMPC 2   
   TZUTC: 0300   
   TID: hpt/lnx 1.9.0-cur 2019-01-08   
      
   >>> From Sean Dennis To All   
   >   
   > I found in some old documentation I had laying around in my filebase   
   > that I can get VMODEM's telnet engine to answer on a different port.   
   > VMODEM's telnet engine's IANA "well-known port name" is "vmotelnet".   
   >   
   > Go into C:\MPTN\ETC\SERVICES and remove the "telnet" lines.  Add   
   > "vmotelnet /tcp" and "vmotelnet /udp" (with  being the   
   > port number you want), save the file, reboot, and et voila! you can now   
   > run your BBS on a different telnet port.  I'm using port 2304 and no   
   > script kiddies.   
      
   Yes. But you can still run only one VMODEM. I played with this feature   
   once and tried to run one VMODEM/Telnet in port 23 and the other one in   
   port 32. I couldn't do it. :)   
      
   'Tommi   
      
   BTW. It is documented in SIO/VMODEM docs. ;-)   
      
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