Accessing SICS through Telnet

SICS is able to communicate with standard TCP/IP telnet clients. Suitable telnet clients are available on allmost all computer platforms free of charge as part of the network software. In order to access SICS with telnet you need to know the following five bits of information:

• The name of the computer where the SICS server is running.
• The port number at which the SICS server lsitens for telnet connections.
• The login word.
• A valid username.
• A valid password for your user name.

Loging in to SICS through telnet requires the following steps:

• Invoke your telnet client and try to contact machine name at the port number given. For example on a Unix or VMS this looks like:

       telnet machine.psi.ch 7654
  

  Of course this may differ if you use a telnet client on a different platform.
• If things go well, you'll be connected to the SICS server then, though he does not tell you about it. However, SICS will not allow you to type commands yet. You have to login with the magic three words: loginword username password. Only if you get this right, the SICS server will print a welcome message and you may type commands to the server.