PCjr Telnet Server Test

Michael B. Brutman mbbrutman-cctalk at brutman.com
Fri Sep 12 21:03:02 CDT 2008


It's running! Telnet to 97.86.233.68 to take a look and help me test it. 
You can use the standard Windows telnet program, Putty, Linux, or 
whatever you have handy.

Around 10 users can be on at the same time. When you sign on (no 
password required) there will be a little menu to help you waste some 
time. Some things you can do are see who else is on the server, view the 
machine type, ROM BIOS date and DOS version, check the TCP/IP statistics 
to see how much traffic it is handling, etc.

There are some upgrades since the last time I ran this test (in Dec 2007):

- The TCP/IP stack is much better
- I'm doing 'telnet' negotiation to figure out the terminal type, turn 
echoing on, etc
- Crude line editing has been added

Right now it is running on my PCjr using a Xircom PE3 10BT. I plan to 
leave it up as long as it runs, or three days, whichever comes first. It 
is a PCjr so if there is a momentary delay, don't panic - it's probably 
just doing disk I/O.

Backspace is a little dodgy ..  it really wants ASCII 8 and a lot of 
terminals and emulators do ASCII 127 instead.  Try variations with the 
shift and control keys if it doesn't work.


Thanks,
Mike



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