[plug] difference between rlogin and telnet?

[McMeikan, Andrew]

I am corrected, has anyone heard of a UDP version of telnet?  I am sure of
reading up on one but am now stumped as to if I just imagined it....

	cya,	Andrew...

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Matt Kemner [SMTP:zombie at wasp.net.au]
> Sent:	Tuesday, June 13, 2000 11:38 AM
> To:	'plug at plug.linux.org.au'
> Subject:	RE: [plug] difference between rlogin and telnet?
> 
> 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
>