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The Telnet protocol enables terminals and terminal-oriented processes to communicate on a network running TCP/IP. It is implemented as the program telnet(1tcp) on the local machine and the daemon telnetd(1Mtcp) on the remote machine. telnet provides a user interface through which two hosts can open communications with each other, then send information on a character-by-character or line-by-line basis.
telnet includes a set of internal commands that allow fine control over its operation.
The telnetd daemon on the remote host handles requests from the telnet command.