Subj : Re: Net2BBS
To   : C.G. LEARN
From : Marceline Jones
Date : Sat Mar 27 2021 10:18 am

 MJ>  MJ> Why cannot Net2BBS just pass the raw connection to D'Bridge WFC mode 
 MJ>  MJ> it because the author wants to sell NetSerial instead ?
 MJ>  WD> 

 CL> Come on, thats not fair, two different softwares for two different 
 CL> purposes. I use both. If you want to use FD or D'Bridge WFC screen,
 CL> you  will have to use NetSerial, if you want to pass telnet infor to 
 CL> something, and login, use net2bbs. A suggestion, if you want to have a

I tend to think of Net2BBS as NetSerial Lite.

Does NetSerial have anti-portscanning features ?

 CL> 5 node system, make nodes 1-4 net2bbs on one port, and node 5, use 
 CL> netserial on the last node to answer the mailer on a different port. 
 CL> Give both out to your users. If they want to call node 5, they just
 CL> hit  esc twice and log in as usual. Now you have a dedicated mail node,
 CL> and 4 user nodes. Process all your events on node 5. It's doable.

If Net2BBS only spawns BBS processes on demand, then the "Who's Online" menu will not show all the nodes. I want people to see that I have 256 nodes waiting for a connection.

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