Subj : VMODEM
To   : Sean Dennis
From : Tommi Koivula
Date : Mon Aug 19 2019 05:05 pm


>>> 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 <port>/tcp" and "vmotelnet <port>/udp" (with <port> 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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