Help! I can't Telnet to My DECserver
Hopefully the questions from our customers are some of the same questions you need to have answered. Here's a recent inquiry about Telnetting to a DECserver:
"I cannot Telnet to one of my DECserver 732's. (It boots successfully, and we have the rotating figure-8 display on the front.)
"I have an H8585-AA connector and an Ethernet cable."
"What software do I use to communicate through one of the serial ports? Can I use the standard HyperTerminal1 on my laptop PC? Can I use Hummingbird Host Explorer2 and a 3270 Display session3?"
I offered the following solution:
Telnet to your DECserver
Connecting from your laptop to the DECserver with the H8585-AA and an Ethernet cable will work. This is the main solution for setting an IP address and getting the DECserver onto the Internet.
Using the HyperTerminal program and configuring the HyperTerminal to 9600, 8 bits, no parity and no flow control should work. Please be sure that the port you are connecting to on the DECserver is configured as a default “local” port type.
- 1 HyperTerminal
- HyperTerminal, also known as HyperTerm, is a communications and terminal emulation program that comes with the Windows operating system (pre-Vista). HyperTerminal can be used to set up a connection for data transfer between two computers using the serial ports and for serial-port control of external devices or systems.
- 2 Hummingbird HostExplorer
- HostExplorer is a full featured terminal emulation solution for all UNIX, Mainframe and AS/400 display and printing needs.
- 3 TN3270
- TN3270 is a protocol that defines how to transport 3270 data streams over a TCP/IP network. TN3270 was originally defined in RFC 1576 and is based on the Telnet protocol. The difference between a Telnet session and a TN3270 session is that a Telnet session uses the ASCII character set and sends a line of data at a time and a TN3270 session uses the EBCDIC character set and sends a block of data (a screen refresh) at a time.