Re: (PM) Re: Caller-ID with tcp-clear sessions

eric@cirr.com
Thu, 18 Mar 1999 14:03:18 -0600

"Kenneth Herron" writes:
- The other idea we thought of was to use the rlogin protocol instead of
- plain netdata; rlogin sends usernames during initiation, and the
- engineer thought that in the case of a call-check authentication the
- caller's phone number might be one of the usernames. Unfortunately we
- need an 8-bit clean data pipe, which rules out rlogin.

My experience is that the rlogin client on the
portmaster is 8-bit clean. Or, I should say, it acts like it..
I use rlogin to connect from my PM2 to my UUCP server (yes, UUCP
is alive and well!), and have seen/heard of no problems with
data corruption due to rlogin.

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