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UNTITLED()			     LOCAL			    UNTITLED()

NAME
       tits Tiny Terminal Server

SYNOPSIS
       /usr/local/sbin/tits [config-file]

DESCRIPTION
       The  tits  command  is a	server process which provides telnet(1)	or raw
       access to one or	 more  tty  ports  as  specified  in  config-file  (or
       /usr/local/etc/tits.conf	 if  no	configuration file is specified	on the
       command line).

       Any number of telnet(1) or raw clients may connect  to  a  single  tits
       port.  Each  client  will  see exactly the same output as well as being
       able to send keystrokes simultaneously.

       tits implements access control using the	hosts_access(5)	 framework  to
       filter  incoming	network	connections.  The service name used to look up
       each port in the	hosts_access(5)	database is dependent on how the  port
       is specified in the config-file.	 If a numerical	port is	specified, the
       service	name is	the final component of the pathname used to invoke the
       program.	Thus, this will	be tits	in normal operation.  If the  port  is
       specified using a service which needs to	be looked up in	/etc/services,
       this service name is used when checking the host_access(5) database.

       tits  multiplexes the data streams between all configured tty ports and
       connected clients within	a single process. Thus,	 it  minimises	system
       context switching overhead when there is	a high I/O load.

       tits  also features a reverse telnet server which can be	used to	multi-
       plex telnet(1) connections to another terminal server which is  limited
       to a single telnet(1) connection	at any one time. In conjunction	with a
       masterpty client, the reverse telnet server can connect a remote	termi-
       nal server to a psuedo-tty device on the	local system.

FILES
       /usr/local/etc/tits.conf

SEE ALSO
       telnet(1), host_access(5), services(5), inetd(8), telnetd(8)

AUTHOR
       tits  is	 Copyright  2001-2006, Steve Woodford <scw@netbsd.org>,	and is
       published under the terms of the	BSD-style  license  specified  in  the
       file LICENSE, supplied with the tits source distribution.

BUGS
       Only  a	tiny subset of the telnet protocol specified in	the above RFCs
       is implemented.

       At this time, there is no `Control Port'	 providing  supervisory	 func-
       tions for managing a tits process at runtime.

       This manual page	could be better.

FreeBSD	Ports 14.quarterly	  Oct 6, 2006			       TITS(8)

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