[mdlug] Serial port monitoring

[Joseph C. Bender]

Drew wrote:

>      Problem is, the ppp is being handled in the Windows virtual 
> machine, and thus is
> not likely to be visible to the Linux host. All the host is likely to 
> know is that the serial
> port is being used by VMware, and maybe if I'm lucky whether or not 
> the modem is
> talking over the phone. (There had for a while been no version of NZ 
> for Linux; and I
> think one might still be lacking.)
>
	Oh!  I got it backwards.  My mistake.

>      I'd still like to see what can be done with simple serial port 
> monitoring first.
> 
	I'm still wondering if there's a way to query VMWare as to when the 
serial port is open or closed.  The fact that VMware is involved may 
cause issues with making stty calls at it.  YOu might want to see if 
there's anything in the VMWare API to see if you can query the status of 
the virtual serial port that way.

	I take it that the Netzero Linux client won't do you any good?  I 
thought they had one?


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