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Telnet Service

3 Telnet Service

With the release of version C.55.00 of MPE/iX, Telnet server

functionality is available to HP 3000 customers. The Telnet server

allows users on a remote system that supports the TCP/IP and Telnet

protocols to log on and run applications on the HP 3000. The Telnet

client, which was ﬁrst made available on version C.50.00 of MPE/iX,

gives users on an HP 3000 direct access to other systems that support

Telnet and TCP/IP.

This chapter describes:

• How to verify the installation of the Telnet ﬁles

• How to edit the inetd conﬁguration ﬁle and the services ﬁle to

conﬁgure the Telnet server.

• How to start the Telnet server once the product has been conﬁgured.

• How to troubleshoot problems that arise with Telnet

• Implementation differences between Telnet for MPE/iX and Telnet

for HP-UX.

Before release C.55.00, the capability to receive incoming Telnet

connections on the HP 3000 was only available with DTC Telnet access.

The HP 3000 processed such connections via a DTC conﬁgured with a

Telnet Access Card (TAC) using PC-based management software.

HP 3000 customers can continue to use DTC Telnet access, particularly

if the level of Telnet trafﬁc places a heavy load on the processing

capacity of the host HP 3000’s CPU.

NOTE Online information about the Telnet client and server is available in the

ASCII ﬁle TELNTDOC.ARPA.SYS.