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sindi keesan wrote:
>
> > To run telnet server, all you need is in.telnetd.
> 
> Would I also still need /etc/ppp/options containing 
> at least local noauth and crtscrts as desribed in the 
> linux serial networking site?

No, not for telnet itself.  However, telnet requires an 
existing TCP/IP network.  Whether you set up that network 
using PPP, ethernet, PLIP or SLIP is your decision.  

The file /etc/ppp/options is used to set up a PPP network.  
It has nothing to do with telnet (other than being part 
of a process that gets a TCP/IP network up).

Think of a TCP/IP network like a road.  You can build
it out of concrete (ethernet) or tar (PPP) or gravel
(PLIP).  Once the road is finished, you can drive various 
types of vehicles along that road:  telnet, ftp, http, 
nfs, etc.

> I presume linux to linux would work the same way.  

Yes, it is possible to run a terminal program (eg minicom)
on Linux and use it to direct-connect to another Linux box.
However, it is more common to use a real dumb terminal 
(or a DOS box running a terminal program) to direct-connect
to a Linux (or Unix) system.

> Do lsz and rsz also include ymodem? Procomm does that.

Perhaps.  I would have to read the lsz documentation to 
be sure.

Cheers,
Steven

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