TELNET

Telnet

Telnet is a network protocol used on the Internet or local area networks to provide a bidirectional interactive text-oriented communication facility using a virtual terminal connection. User data is interspersed in-band with Telnet control information in an 8-bit byte oriented data connection over the Transmission Control Protocol .

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telnet

Noun

  1. A network protocol that enables one computer to communicate with another via the Internet; the program that acts as the client in this situation

Verb

  1. To use such a program to make such a connection


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