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RE: 1 linux box: 10 simultaneous telnet sessions



Joe,

8 telnet sessions will cause no undo hardships on your system.  Just make
sure that the TERM variable is set correctly for the terminal emulation
you're using.

-mk

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joris Lambrecht [mailto:jlambrec@landis.be]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 7:15 AM
> To: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org'
> Subject: RE: 1 linux box: 10 simultaneous telnet sessions
> 
> 
> Download TeraTerm Pro from any of it's many mirror's, support VT100
> emulation etc. as well as an ssh implementation.
> Download @ http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA002416/teraterm.html 
> Download ssh plugin @ http://www.zip.com.au/~roca/ttssh.html 
> (just for your
> information)
> Configure the needed terminal sessions (set the required 
> terminal emulation)
> to support a better then telnet terminal emulation and have a 
> try. Should
> work perfectly. Main advantage of TeraTerm is that it is 
> quite good software
> and free.
> 
> I guess you could also use HyperTerminal to connect to the 
> linux machine.
> 
> I suppose that if you're running an introduction course you 
> might not need
> more RAM to be able to run those scripts/perl simultaneously, 
> RAM might get
> consumed rather rapidly if doing some more serious tasks.
> 
> Greets,
> 
> Joris
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: joe golden [mailto:jg1024@hotmail.com]
> Sent: woensdag 21 maart 2001 13:05
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: 1 linux box: 10 simultaneous telnet sessions
> 
> 
> I'm planning on teaching a short intro to perl unit in our 
> middle school.
> 
> I have one linux box running kernel 2.2.18pre21 on our windows NT 4.0 
> ethernet connected network of 9 machines.  telnet version is 
> 0.16-4potato.1
> telnetd version is same
> 
> 
> Is it feasible to have eight telnet sessions, one from each 
> individual NT 
> workstation, into the one linbox?
> 
> I think telnet is not the most elegant at timesharing with 
> this type of 
> load.  I'm not sure if it is designed for this (clunky) 
> application.  Any 
> tips on optimizing the setup for this scenario?
> 
> Three students have logged in simultaneously via telnet, so I 
> think the 
> basic setup is sound, but we haven't done much yet.
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