Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!ists!eric
From: eric@ists.ists.ca (Eric M. Carroll)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Rtelnet mods for Annex?
Message-ID: <2658@ists.ists.ca>
Date: 17 Nov 89 01:56:37 GMT
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Reply-To: eric@ists.ists.ca (Eric M. Carroll)
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>I was just looking at the Rtelnet program Annex provides with its
>terminal servers. Basically, it a daemon that uses telnet to talk to
>the server, and provides a /dev interface using a pty.
>
>Some problems I noticed were: 

...

As well as those, it doesn't work, at least with SunOs 4.0.1 or higher. 
I have problem report #10078 logged against rtelnetd through Encore. 
Of course, Encore says "Its not a priority" and hints they will just 
tell Xylogics about it if I yell. And then they tell me that Xylogics 
has no customer support group. So catch-22.

If you are just attempting to run a slaved getty so that users don't see
the cli, check out the dedicated mode available on a per port basis 
in release 4.1.

This, and the lack of Van J's SL/IP improvements are the only blemishes 
against an otherwise fantastic product.