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- H Volume One, Issue 1, File #05 of 20 H
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- E Beginners Guide to JANET by Weazle. E
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- JANET (the Joint Academic NETwork) is a favourite hacking tool for newcomers to
- hacking - mainly because it and the computers attached to it offer you so much
- help and information which can be used to do nice things with their micros!
-
- Hey ho and here we go!
-
- The first thing that you need to do is to find a telephone access number for
- the JANET pad nearest to you. To help you do this please refer to file #6, in
- this issue of H-Net which is Hackernet BBS's latest list of such numbers and in
- some cases gives the baud rates which have been tested out on these pads.
-
- When you have found the telephone number that you need then set your comms
- terminal to seven bits, even parity with one stop bit (7e1). Then dial the
- telephone number (a baudrate of 2400 is sometimes catered for - but is
- unreliable on some pads). When you get the CONNECT message press your <RETURN>
- key a couple of times, if nothing happens then wait about 4 seconds then press
- the <RETURN> key two or three times again. You should now get a 'welcome'
- message (on some PADS you might now get the prompt 'Which Service?' type 'PAD'
- <RETURN>) the ypu will get a system prompt (e.g. 'PAD>'). If you do not get
- such a prompt then drop the line and reconfigure your comms s/w (you might have
- to do this a few times until you work out the proper settings as all pads do
- not work on a uniform setting - unfortunately! - but it's all good hacking
- experience anyway - trying to work out the proper settings for the target
- system.
-
- When you have the 'PAD>' or a similar prompt then type the following command:-
-
- PAD> logon f,r
-
- the pad isn't really all that fussy about what you use after the 'logon'
- command, 'f,r' is just an example - in practise you could use anything, most
- people use 'x,x' for some reasonh...please note that on some pads that you
- might have to type 'login' instead of 'logon'.
-
- What does this command do? Well it tells the JANET Pad that when you have
- called through to one of the computers connected to it's network - done your
- business then exited from that computer that you want to return to the 'PAD>'
- prompt so that you can 'CALL' other computers on the network. If you do not
- enter this command your line will be dropped when you have exited from the
- first computer on the network that you have called - and that would mean having
- to redial the pad again....yawn!
-
- The next command to get to grips with is the 'CALL' command. This along with a
- NETWORK ADDRESS allows you to connect to other computers on the JANET network.
- In file #7 in this issue of H-Net you will find a list of some of the computers
- that you can connect to on the JANET network along with their NETWORK address
- and/or their NETWORK mnemonic.
-
- The way to use the 'CALL' command is as follows :- firstly, find the NETWORK
- ADDRESS of the computer that you wish to connect to (in this example the
- Unaxcess chatboard at Bradford University which is 0000121100 ), then type the
- following at the 'PAD>' prompt :-
-
- PAD> call j.0000121100
-
-
- The 'j.' just tells the pad to expect a JANET address. Please note that some
- PAD managers have gotten wise to hackers using their PADs to gain access to
- systems on the JANET network, in these cases they might have changed the format
- of the 'CALL' command around a little bit - usually by making it so that the
- '.' after the 'j' in the above example is no longer required - on such systems
- the 'CALL' command should be :-
-
- PAD> call j0000121100
-
- On some PADs there is on online help facility - to make use of this just type:-
-
- PAD> help
-
- you should get a response similar to this :-
-
- Help knows about :-
-
- ADDRESS TARIFFS STATUS
-
- The address helpfile is usually quite useful - to get this type :-
-
- PAD> help address
-
- then a nice list of network mnemonics available from that PAD might start
- scrolling down your screen. Mnemonics can be used instead of the NETWORK
- ADDRESSES previously mentioned. For instance if we wanted to call the
- Lancaster Universities' PD software computer system use the following call
- command :-
-
- PAD> call lancs.pdsoft
-
- It is just a nice way to be able to access the systems on the network as they
- cannot expect the average student or lecturer to remember the 10 or 14 digit
- NETWORK ADDRESSES which prevail on the JANET system!
-
- When you have entered your 'CALL' command you should get a response such as
- 'connecting..' if you just get garbage then you might need to change the
- configuration of your terminal. For instance if you call the pad using 7e1
- then when you call an address and just get garbage then quickly switch to 8n1
- and press return once - you should then get some sense out of the computer that
- you have requested access to (usually a 'login:' or similar prompt). If this
- does not work then keep on changing your settings until you do get in.
-
- From here on in it will be just like calling the target computer direct, except
- that when you exit from the computer you will be returned to the 'PAD>' prompt
- again (if you remembered to enter your 'logon' command!), again - if you just
- get garbage after terminating your session on a computer on the JANET network
- then you will need to reset the configuration of your comms s/w / terminal to
- what it originally was when you first called the PAD.
-
- Well, that just about sums it up I guess - this should be all you need to know
- about using the JANET system and pads - the little quirks it has and so on. The
- best thing about JANET in my eyes is that (usually for the price of a local
- call) you can get into computers all over the world, belonging to mainly
- educational establishments but also defence and other organisations! The main
- type of computers that you will find on JANET are VAX, UNIX and PRIME with a
- splattering of other systems here and there.
-
- I hope that this file has been of help to you - if you have any new information
- about JANET in general or some of the systems available through it then please
- e-mail me 'WEAZLE' on the Hackernet BBS.
-
- WEAZLE.
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