[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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