This HOWTO attempts to clear up some of the confusion of using
term
, Michael O'Reilly's remarkable program that allows you
to multiplex your serial line and set up an ersatz network connection.
By and large, the documents that come with term
are quite
good, and this HOWTO is not intended to replace them. The intent of
this document is to give some background on how term
works
and detail the steps in getting some of the more common networking
services working under term
. I should emphasize that this
document doesn't cover everything there is to know about
term
. After reading it, you should read the term
manpages, since they include information not contained here.
term?
term
is a program, written by Michael O'Reilly
(michael@iinet.com.au), that is run over a serial line to allow
multiple connections to operate concurrently - i.e. you can
be downloading a file over your modem while working on a (different)
remote system via the same modem connection. term
can also
be used to open up X client windows over a serial connection. Through
the tredir
utility, term
can provide many of the
``traditional'' network services: mail, news, ftp, telnet, etc. In a
sense, term
is very much like other serial protocols such
as SLIP or PPP. term
's advantage is that it can be run
entirely from user space, requiring neither kernel support nor support
from system or network administrators.