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No connection
Hi again, now I am able to open Rapidfire-BBS through Retroterm, so parts seem to work. Unfortunately I do not get a connection to a running RetroBBS-server running on a Raspberry next room in the same network connected by wifi to the same router as the C64 is cabled to.
In the last few hours I tried around with "exposed host" settings in many variations, without success, too.
What am I doing wrong? What exact adress have I to call from C64 side? Any special settings I have to do in the router? Port is set to 6488 here today just testwise becaus it did not work with 6400 yesterday. Greets, Michael
The IP should be the one router assigns to the RPi, so the one youre using should work. You'll have to setup a virtual server/port forwarding on your router, using the RPi IP address and the port(s) you want to expose, in your case that would be 6488. I did a little search and I think this functionality is called 'Port sharing' in your router brand.
Let me know how it goes
Whatever I do, I dont get it to work unfortunately. I have to investigate traffic more - but dont know where to start exaclty.
All I get is "no carrier" and "no answer", most times immediately, sometimes it takes a few seconds.
I need a way to find out if " something" reaches the Raspberry at all, or where the request "atd" from the C64 gets stuck exactly - but how...seems I need a router-expert to analyze the traffic in the FritzBox...but I dont know hot to get such details or what I could try now.
Protocol for port sharing I have chosen TCP, but also tried UDP, exposed host, exposed host for C64 and Ports from 6400-6500 for Raspberry...always the same result.
On raspberry side a far as I know there is no firewall.
Rapidfire-BBS works immediately without any problem.
I hope you have an idea how I could check and analyze whats going on here a bit more / maybe on router/Raspberry-side....I am a complete network/telnet/bbs-noob, isnt there any "ping" command or some way to check where the traffic gets stuck?
Only thing I find could be wrong is that you seem to be opening the 6400-6500 port range only for IPv6 connections
You're right, but even If I correct this, always the same result, whatever I do.
Rapidfire bbs works, but I recognized that all 'Turbo56k"-bbs adresses I can find do not work on Retroterm here - are they all currently down - or should they work? Do you have an adress of a Turbo56k bbs, that currently definately is up and working? Just to figure out where the problem is (I already have had firmware-problems on Ultimate-side before I updated it).
In the meanwhile I installed Wireshark on the Raspberry and see, that on wifi definately a date package goes in from Ultimate-IP when I do a "atd...". Not sure what happens then, there is a deep red answer, thats it. But as traffic goes in over wifi from correct ip-adress, I assume router and port-things are fine.
This is a live status monitor for retroBBS instances: https://solidstate.com.ar/bbsstatus/
About your problem, try changing the BBS ip in the config.ini back to 0.0.0.0 or 127.0.0.1 (Usually the default 0.0.0.0 works, but some OSs need to use another localhost alias)
Many thanks, these bbs work at least. I'll do more tests tomorrow with my network.