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|    Torsten Bamberg to Tommi Koivula    |
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|    23 Aug 19 21:19:00    |
      REPLY: 2:221/360 5d5d78ea       MSGID: 2:240/5832 5d604215       CHRS: CP850 2       TZUTC: 0200       Hallo Tommi!              21.08.2019 20:01, Tommi Koivula schrieb an Torsten Bamberg:               >> Currently my vmodem and telnet ports are down, but usually I have 8        >> telnet ports running, with one instance of vmodem(2k).        TK> 8 different TCP ports?       I meant telnet-sessions simultanously. Of course only port 23 is attached.               TK> My Vmodem of SIO 1.60 has 16 "ports", but listening only one TCP port.       I'm using sio2k. sio2k supports 256 'sessions', witch can be telnet, com-ports       or com emulated capi-devices. I've got one big problem with sio2k, I can't       register it any more.               TK> Which is 23 BTW. And that port is not exposed to the internet, my        TK> router forwards external port 32 to port 23 at OS/2 computer.       Ahm, i've got a special security configuration, not only because of the       'unclosed session bug' from sio2k                      cable -->-- cable-router -->-- Router 1 Firewall 1        dsl -->-- dsl-modem -->-- BSD-Router -->-- BSDFirewall        | | |--->--- DMZ        | |        | |--->--- LAN        |        -> Firewall 2        | with fail2ban BSD        |        RexxLogScripting ^ |        | Telnet on        -- Mailbox 01              Security by obscurity. ;-)               >> But there is one big bug with vmodem; if the clientsession isn't        >> closed properly, vmodem hangs up the whole computer without a trap.        TK> Oh?       Jap. If more than 256 connections are opend, and not properly closed, sio2k       does hang up the system.               TK> 'Tommi       Bye/2 Torsten              ... MAILBOX01 on OS2: up 1d 18h 29m load: 35 proc, 129 threads (tbupv1.1)       --- GoldED+ 1.1.5-19        * Origin: DatenBahn BBS Hamburg (2:240/5832)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 15/2 18/200 226/17 227/114 229/354 426 452 616 1014       SEEN-BY: 240/5832 5853 249/206 317 400 292/854 317/3 320/219 322/757       SEEN-BY: 342/200 633/280       PATH: 240/5832 229/426           |
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