Specify port for telnet

[andrewtholt]

I am connecting a serial adaptor to an esp8266, then using (linux) ser2net to I can telnet to the console. All good.

I can use socat to create a pty and then use mpfshell to connect to that. It's a bit messy though, and when you exit socat exits too

what would be useful would be (or something like):

mpfshell tn:192.123.0.43:2000

or

mpfshell tn:192.123.0.43,2000

I've stated looking at the code, but your opinion and suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Andrew

[skorokithakis]

Hm, this sounds like a useful thing to be able to do, but I'm afraid that I don't really remember much of the code at this point.

What's messy about socat? It seems like it would cleanly allow you to do this, and it'd be better to combine two utilities than overload mpfshell's functionality with something fairly orthogonal. That's not to say that I think the feature shouldn't be here, I'd just like to make sure it's necessary to be in the codebase first.

[andrewtholt]

If I close the connection to socat it exits. OK, I could put in a script and loop, but it just seems tidier.

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[skorokithakis]

Hmm, yeah. I'm just afraid that some TCP/telnet stuff will eventually leak up into the code, so I'm wondering if it's worth it. If it's a small change (a few tens of LoC), I think it would be fine.