[Info-vax] virtual consoles

[glen herrmannsfeldt]

Jan-Erik S?derholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> wrote:
(snip on terminal servers)
 
> What is connected in "reverse" ?
 
> Terminal servers are connected to something having
> a serial port. May it be a printer or a consol port, there
> isn't that much of a difference and neither of them is
> "in reverse".
 
> The only thing that might be called "reverse" is how the
> connection (session) to the port of the terminalserver
> is *established*. Sometimes someone at the port doing a
> "connect" to something with a telnet service (like someone
> sitting at a VT220 connected to a terminal server doing a
> "connect <some-VMS-box>") is regarded as "normal" and when
> the VMS server is establishing the session with the port is
> regarded as "in reverse". But there is nothing "reverse" with
> how soeting is serialy connected with the port itself.

Yes.  Normal is that the terminal server makes a telnet connection
to the host.  Reverse is the host makes a telnet (or other
TCP connection) to the terminal server.  The serial port is
symmetric, but telnet isn't.

-- glen