The Synchronet Terminal Server is responsible for providing that “old school” BBS user interface over dial-up modems and classic Internet console protocols (e.g. Telnet).

• Supports ANSI X3.64 (color and monochrome), RIP, and dumb terminals
• Supports US-ASCII and CP437 (a.k.a. IBM Extended ASCII) character sets
• Supported Protocols: Telnet, RLogin, and SSH

• Configured via the ctrl/sbbs.ini file
• Optionally configured (on Windows) via SBBSCTRL:Telnet→Configure dialog

Telnet clients are supported, by default, on the standard Telnet TCP port: 23.

RLogin clients are supported, by default, on the standard RLogin TCP port: 513.

Secure Shell version 2 clients are supported, by default, on the standard SSH TCP port: 22.

SSHv2 support provided by cryptlib.

Additional JavaScript objects are available to Terminal Server modules only:

• bbs object
• console object

The Synchronet Terminal Server source code makes up the majority of the C (and all of the C++) files found in cvs/src/sbbs3 with the main module being main.cpp.

• Synchronet External Plain Old Telephone System Support (SEXPOTS)
• Servers