Subj : Raw or is it RAW ?
To   : Airmailman
From : Digital Man
Date : Mon Mar 13 2023 13:58:19

  Re: Raw or is it RAW ?
  By: Airmailman to Digital Man on Mon Mar 13 2023 08:11 am

 >   Re: Raw or is it RAW ?
 >   By: Digital Man to Dennis Scott on Sun Mar 12 2023 05:26 pm
 >
 >  >  >  > Raw TCP, not Telnet, not RLogin, just plain ole TCP.
 >
 >  >  > So Raw probably means that person is on the same local TCIP network as
 >  >  > the BBS, ie, a local user?
 >
 >  > No, not at all. More likely the user is just using some retro hardware or
 >  > software that doesn't support Telnet.
 >
 > What type of retro hardware could that be?

Oh, like a Commodore or Apple or Atari computer.

 > Sorry, I'm just trying to learn
 > here and I can't find anywhere online that tells of such things.
 >
 > The BBS is connected to a switch connected to a router connected to the
 > internet. So what hardware/software would allow passage of TCP thru all of
 > that without using telnet via TCPIP.

Anything that passes Telnet traffic through will pass raw TCP too, in fact they're often confused with each other. Telnet is only barely any different from raw TCP.
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