AIS user manual AI2524 Overview

Chapter 2: AI2524 Overview

also provides network access to terminals, printers, workstations, and other networks.

On LANs, terminal services support Transmission Control Protocol/ Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) on UNIX machines with Telnet and rlogin connections. You can use the router to make connections between hosts and resources running different protocols, including router and access server connections to X.25 machines using X.25 Packet Assem- bler/Disassembler (PAD).

The Cisco IOS software supports three types of server operation:

Remote Node Ser-	Connect devices over a telephone network
vices	Serial Line Internet Protocol (SLIP), com-
	pressed SLIP (CSLIP), Point-to-Point Protocol
	(PPP), and X-Windows terminal protocol. See
	Figure 2- .
Terminal Service	Connect asynchronous devices to a LAN or
	WAN through network and terminal-emulation
	software including Telnet and rlogin,.
Protocol Transla-	Convert one virtual terminal protocol into
tion Services	another protocol. See Figure 2-1.

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