[plug] difference between rlogin and telnet?

[Matt Kemner]

On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, McMeikan, Andrew wrote:

> I believe there may be some significance in telnet using TCP and rlogin
> using UDP

Rlogin does not use UDP, it uses TCP.

live:~# grep login /etc/services 
login           513/tcp

Personally I've found rlogin better at handling binary streams, especially
when run with the -8 and/or -E parameters (see the manpage)
When I first got dial-up internet access, I ended up running ppp over
rlogin, which worked fine, whereas it would not work over telnet.

 - Matt