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A daemon that connects local terminal device to a terminal server

 The package consists of two programs - PortRedorector and PortTest.

PortRedirector is a daemon that runs telnet to the remote port of the
terminal server and redirects its input and output to a virtual
terminal device (/dev/pty*). The corresponding slave device (dev/tty*)
then can be used by an application that expects a local async terminal
port. For example, to monitor a UPS (connected to AUX ports on a Cisco router)
using nut.

Whenever telnet subprocess terminates on any reason, it is restarted
as soon as any data received from the terminal device.

It can also work when authentication is required, i.e. it can pass username
and password specified in its configuration file.

PortTest is something like cu(1). You can use either of them to test the
connection. 

pr history

v. 1.5
date: 2005/02/24 13:41:40;  author: clsung;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -1
- Distfile location has been changed

PR:		ports/78013
Submitted by:	Anton Voronin (maintainer)

v. 1.4
date: 2003/11/02 03:36:40;  author: edwin;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -1
ports with possibly unreachable MAINTAINERs

*** addresses that may be dead, even though the error is temporary:
*** addresses that seem to be dead, but give a hint to a new address:

PR:		ports/58694
Submitted by:	Oliver Eikemeier 

v. 1.3
date: 2003/02/21 11:07:04;  author: knu;  state: Exp;  lines: +2 -1
De-pkg-comment.

v. 1.2
date: 2001/08/13 12:24:53;  author: kevlo;  state: Exp;  lines: +2 -2
Update to version 1.1

PR: 29670
Submitted by: MAINTAINER

v. 1.1
date: 2001/03/31 01:36:29;  author: will;  state: Exp;
Add pr 1.0, a daemon that connects local terminal device to a
terminal server.

PR:		26197
Submitted by:	Anton Voronin 
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