Re: {bb} test if a client can telnet another box on a specific TCP port

[Henrik Storner <henrik-bb@hswn.dk>]

In <852E2F19B467314783DFBC41A34D9758076D23E5@bmtcexc1.esat.bt.lcl> Loris Serena <Loris.Serena@esat.com> writes:

>I'd like BB to report if some BB clients can telnet another box on a
>specific TCP port (i.e. just to see if the connection cacn be
>established)

The BB network tester will do this nicely. Say you have a service
called "flub" running on port 5162 on the host "blob"; to test this
you must setup an entry in bb-hosts

   10.1.2.3  blob   # flub:5162:s

AND you must add the "flub" service to the BBNETSVCS setting, so
that BB knows it is a network test - to do that, edit 
$BBHOME/etc/bbdef.sh and change the BBNETSVCS to include the
word "flub".

The ":s" at the end of the bb-hosts entry means that BB will just
connect to the port, but not send anything - without the ":s",
BB will send a "QUIT" to the remote service.


Henrik
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