What is telnet ?
 

If you want to use telnet for video conferencing you will probably have to install aalib-1.2. :)

Re: What is telnet ?
 

You can use it in Windows too. There are 2 ways that I know of:

START>RUN type CMD

When your DOS command prompt shows up type:

telnet <ip or server name here>

You can also go to START>PROGRAMS>ACCESSORIES>TELNET

This will get you a white window. Click on CONNECT at the top right, then REMOTE SYSTEM. Here you'll have to specify an IP or DNS.

I have no idea about the video conferencing. Check out mcleodnine's post as I'm not much help here.:D

it is used to connect to other machines get a command interface to use the other machine

Don't use telnet. Use ssh.

Next time you telnet somewhere do a tcpdump after sitting on port 23 and you'll see your username and pasword in plain text. Telnet is not safe.

Interesting TOPIC , but what is SSH???? what can it do??? would it be available in REDHAT 6.0??????

I know what TELNET is in WINDOWS ,used it ,all text based stuff. Never had the luck of it working in L iNUX {dial-up problems} .

SSH = Secure SHell

The ssh daemon is included with most distros. if you don't have it take a look at:
http://www.openssh.org

To access an ssh server from windoze you will need a client like putty:
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/