[Info-vax] Reverse telnet to a terminal emulator?
Snowshoe
no at spam.please
Mon Jul 18 21:02:06 EDT 2011
Is there any such thing as VTxxx-compatible terminal server software
that runs on a PC that, instead of actively connecting to a host via
telnet, is "passive", it waits until something connects to it? Once a
host connects to it, it acts like a regular VTxxx terminal. My idea is
for VMS to reverse-telnet to it. (TELNET> CREATE_SESSION 10.9.8.7 23 100
creates TNA100: on host at IP address 10.9.8.7 port 23) This is to
replace a hardwired terminal that doesn't log in, but an application
currently allocates it and uses it for part of its operator interface.
If the answer is "no", an alternative is for someone to use ordinary
terminal server SW to telnet into the VMS host and run a do-nothing
program that goes into a permanent LEF state, and VMS finds its TNAx
device and writes to it, but this is one step I'd rather not have the
operators do.
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