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From: aem@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (a.e.mossberg)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: {ftp,telnet}d{,.gw}
Message-ID: <1990Mar8.184019.23106@mthvax.cs.miami.edu>
Date: 8 Mar 90 18:40:19 GMT
References: <1847@uakari.primate.wisc.edu>
Reply-To: aem@Mthvax.CS.Miami.Edu
Organization: U of Miami Dept. of Math. and Computer Science, Coral Gables, FL 33124
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In <1847@uakari.primate.wisc.edu> bin@primate.wisc.edu (Brain in Neutral) writes:
>What are /usr/etc/ftpd.gw and /usr/etc/telnetd.gw, and how do they
>differ from ftpd and telnetd?


They support DECnet gatewaying. I.e. you can do things like:

% telnet name.of.host.running.telnet.gw

Connected to name.of.host.running.telnet.gw

name login: YARBLE::		(YARBLE being a host that runs only decnet)

Screwy Department Vax 8530 VMS 5.0

Username: 

or:

% ftp name.of.host.running.ftpd.gw

220 FTP version etc line however it looks
ftp> user YARBLE::username	(yarble still a decnet-only host)
331 Password required for gateway access YARBLE (or somesuch message)
Password: 

and so on.  

aem


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