rainwatr@ucqais.uc.edu (Donald J. Rainwater) (06/21/89)
I recently set up a telnet service (LAT/Telnet Gateway) thru our Ultrix 3.0 system (VAX 8650). We have 128 LAT ports created (256 configured), so the upper eight LAT devices are /dev/ttyC[0-7]. I thought that I would allocate the ports for the telnet service to these top 8 ports (rather than taking 8 out of the middle - LAT printers start at tty00), thus leaving room to expand downward. When I set the telnet service to use ttyC[0-8], it didn't work. The telnet service was created, but lattelnet wasn't running on any of the ttyC's. Connecting to the telnet service resulted in being placed on ports beginning at tty88, which were running getty and yielded a Login: prompt. Several questions came to mind. Why wasn't the telnet service using the ports that were assigned to it? Why weren't the ttyC's running lattelnet (they weren't running getty either)? Why did connections to the telnet service go to ports starting at tty88? I changed the telnet service to use ports starting right after the LAT printer port assignments and everything is working fine. The telnet ports are running lattelnet, and the ttyC's are running getty. This is okay I guess, but why can't I do it the other way??? -- Don Rainwater, University of Cincinnati Computer Center rainwatr@ucbeh.san.uc.edu rainwatr@ucbeh.bitnet rainwatr@ucqais.uc.edu