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- From: alexis@panix.com (Alexis Rosen)
- Subject: Seeking 8-bit clean connection from Annex to Sun
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.134934.16804@panix.com>
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 13:49:34 GMT
- Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC
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- We are now running from an Annex III to a Sun, and we're having some major
- difficulties: Users can't download binaries because telnet gets in the way.
-
- I see a couple of potential solutions:
-
- 1) Set up for rtelnet, and run gettys onto the Annex
- This will work but prevents us from letting the Annex talk to
- multiple hosts. That's not acceptable.
-
- 2) Use telnet -t and some login daemon
- You find something that takes TCP connections and connects them to
- a login process. I _think_ that this should work, but I don't have
- the code for such a deamon. It shouldn't be too hard to write, if
- it doesn't exist already, but never having written networking code
- I'm sure it would take me much longer than it should. Does anyone
- already have such a thing?
-
- 3) Use telnet -r
- I don't get raw mode at all. What's the difference between raw and
- transparent?
-
- 4) Use rlogin
- I haven't played with this yet. This is a perfect solution IF it will
- really work. Will it?
-
-
- I'm also curious: given the telnet protocol spec, is it even possible to
- negotiate a connection with NO special character handling and then step out
- of the way? That way you could use all the normal telnet tools.
-
- Thanks,
- ---
- Alexis Rosen Owner/Sysadmin,
- PANIX Public Access Unix & Internet, NYC.
- alexis@panix.com
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