Subj : Net2BBS and NetFoss
To   : All
From : Limping Ninja
Date : Fri Dec 31 2021 11:36 am

I currently use NetSerial, but recently was looking at Net2BBS and NetFoss as an entry point to my board, mainly due to the really nice IP filtering setup and detection for portscans. 

I followed the instructions to the letter but there appears to be some weirdness:

When using NetFoss by itself from the command prompt it fails silently, I believe this is because it is attempting to use the DLL in the NetFoss folder. I did move the DLL for NetFoss and NetFos64 into System32 and SysWow64 and when I type "where netfoss.dll" and "where netfos64.dll" respectively I get the right locations.

I have an NF.BAT where I use the %1 call (netfoss.com %1) appropriately.

When I get a telnet, Net2BBS picks it up, shells appropriately to the NF.BAT and then I get the following:

netfoss.com
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In terminal: 
Net2BBS is Resolving your IP Address... BBSName
NetFoss - Revision 5 FOSSIL - Com Eng v1.25 - (c) 2001-2021 pcmicro.com
In shell (Netcom loads and says): NetFoss not found


netfos64.com
In terminal:
Same as above
In shell:
BBS loads but cannot init the modem. I am running KBBS and I can choose Standard COM 1-4, Non-standard port (ADDR/IRQ required), Standard FOSSIL driver, and some OS/2 and digiboard options. I chose FOSSIL and the node 1 has FOSSIL:0, and the nodes go consecutively up. When setting it the software says 0=COM1, 1=COM2 -- but from what I understood from the doc it shouldn't matter.

Is there something special I need to be doing here? 

In regards to NetFoss not found, I saw that this was supposedly an issue back in 2020 that was fixed with NTVDMx64 and NetFoss not playing together well but was supposed to be fixed. I am running the most recent NTVDMx64.

Hopefully some help, it isn't life ending since I can always roll back to NetSerial. Though would love to have the temp bans and detection stuff that Net2BBS has without getting too complicated a setup.

Kind Regards,
LN
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