Configuring and Managing MPE/iX Internet Services (August 2002)

Chapter 3

Telnet Service

Overview of Telnet Service

Telnet service consists of a Telnet client and a Telnet server.

The Telnet server uses the standard virtual terminal protocol, originally developed by the Advanced Research

Projects Agency (ARPA) to allow users on a remote node that supports the Telnet and TCP/IP protocols to log

on and run applications on the host HP e3000. When you configure and enable Telnet on your system, inetd,

the master server for the Internet Services, will listen for connection requests from Telnet clients. If the

request comes from an authorized client node (for example, one that is allowed Telnet access to the host via

the allow entry in the inetd security file), inetd will accept the request and start a Telnet session for the

requesting client.

The Telnet client allows users on your system to log onto and run applications on a remote host system that

supports Telnet access. On MPE/iX, the Telnet client is the program file TELNET.ARPA.SYS.

Read “Implementation Differences” for a discussion of the differences between the implementation of the

Telnet server on the HP e3000 and the Telnet server as it is implemented on HP-UX systems.