Subject: Re: tty driver for reverse telnet (a better explanation)
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: Aaron J. Grier <agrier@poofygoof.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 02/28/2002 11:26:59
On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 03:25:27PM -0500, Greg A. Woods wrote:

> Livingston Portmasters used to come with such a driver.  They didn't
> use plain telnet as the protocol for the connection though because
> telnet alone doesn't have enough support to pass through some of the
> tty settings.  Perhaps xylogics had such a driver too, but I don't
> remember.

xylogics distributed source to rtelnet in the annex host support
software bundle.  I never used it heavily, so I don't remember whether
or not it supported termios.

I have heard this mode coined "reverse milking-machine".

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