[ih] Why FTP uses two ports?
Louis Mamakos
louie at transsys.com
Thu Jun 21 06:24:30 PDT 2012
On Jun 21, 2012, at 6:51 AM, John Day wrote:
>
>
> BTW, I know that many textbooks and well-known
> professors describe Telnet as a remote login
> protocol. It isn't. It is a terminal device
> driver protocol. This is why this class of
> protocols use to be called virtual terminal
> protocols. Remote log in is one application
> built using Telnet. Telnet was also used in FTP,
> RJE, CCNRJE, and SMTP.
>
> Take care,
> John
Strictly speaking, at least SMTP did not use the
TELNET protocol, as FTP did for it's control connection. I
recall implemented IAC escaping when I built my FTP server's
control connection handling. I don't know about RJE,
CONRJE personally.
Louis Mamakos
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