rtmistler |
05-02-2017 07:29 AM |
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Originally Posted by lab_rat-265
(Post 5704796)
Using ubuntu, the 1 machine has a true air gap, this one I intend to not connect directly to the net just us it to turn another system to the net or just to private network & to turn net on & of remotely by connecting a serial port to the managed switch to manage the blades & ports. it's a rather small network however I do prize my personal data & don't trust it to hackers as they once wiped 5 systems in a single night just for grins & giggles & I lost data going back to the early 90's including legit OS's that I had collected over the years.
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Given that you had collected this data over years, it would seem surprising that you hadn't kept backups on other forms of media. Also noting that "collected OS's" would be the very type of thing which you would keep on a secondary drive or media storage since you'd need a clean install disk to re-install the OS should it suffer some sort of problem where it was non-recoverable.
Regarding your original topic and where you're going with a serial modem, why not use the AT command set directly and write some custom software to do this. You also can just use minicom or any other serial communications terminal for Linux where you can send and receive the ASCII AT commands directly. Minicom is ideally suited for this, take the time to check the settings. With the obvious expertise you're demonstrating here, it should be very simple for you to contend with that modem's command set, and as you likely also know, that would be far better than relying on a software package to do this for you, plus also likely, more secure.
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