Re: [ECOS] telnet-server under ECOS

[Gary Thomas <gthomas@cambridge.redhat.com>]

On 23-Apr-2001 Grant Edwards wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 06:26:45AM -0600, Gary Thomas wrote:
> 
>> > I need telnet-server sources under eCos. Who can help me ? 
>> > marek lacki@rts.com.pl 
>> 
>> We have no "telnet server", per se, as this makes little sense for the
>> eCos world.
>> 
>> Exactly what were you wanting to do with it?
> 
> Many embedded devices have character mode command interfaces
> for status/control through "console" serial ports. The same
> interfaces work quite well via telnet.  E.g. you telnet into a
> router or printer or whatever to configure it instead of going
> the web-page route.  I can manage a usable telnet session on my
> PalmPilot.  Trying to do web stuff is generally pretty futile.

Agreed.  For this level of usage, the telnet code in RedBoot is
possibly sufficient or certainly a starting point.

If the desired usage is more complex, e.g. a stand-alone server
which "runs tasks", etc [which I expect is what the original query
was for], we don't really have such a thing for eCos, simply because
it doesn't make sense in the environment we target.

[Actually, RedBoot could be considered such a beast, but that is
another matter :-)]