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Chris, sorry to chime in unexpectedly. Did you set up the ports used for consoles to allow remote access from the LAN (DEFINE PORT n ACCESS REMOTE, then LOGOUT PORT n)? - I have no experience with reverse Telnet on this device, but this should at least give you a chance to associate port n with a service and then connect to the service (either from another port m on the DECserver, or via SET HOST/LAT from a VAX). This is LAT terminology, but I think the ACCESS REMOTE setting is required for reverse Telnet as well. Alternatively, ACCESS DYNAMIC would allow you to either connect from the VT220 on any other port m to DECserver port n with a console on it, or else. ACCESS LOCAL forbids any access from the LAN to the port. Connections can only be initiated from the port itself. This is the default setting. And, if you cannot get it going, throw the DECserver at me! ;-) Regards, Andreas P.S.: Of course, since you have VMS, once you set the port to ACCESS REMOTE or DYNAMIC, you can even create a LATnnnn: device that represents the DECserver port, e.g., in LAT$SYSTARTUP.COM. For this to work, you don't necessarily need to associate a service with the port. Chris Craft wrote: -- Andreas Freiherr Vishay Semiconductor GmbH, Heilbronn, Germany http://www.vishay.com