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From: jkh@smspde.ilo.dec.com (Jordan Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: SLIP under FreeBSD
Date: 25 Apr 1994 12:33:38 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Galway Ireland
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Message-ID: <JKH.94Apr25123338@smspde.ilo.dec.com>
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In-reply-to: hmctague@wpi.edu's message of 21 Apr 1994 17:45:50 GMT
In article <2p6e4e$5oh@bigboote.WPI.EDU> hmctague@wpi.edu (Henry R McTague) writes:
Now I can ping any machine in the company using it's machine name,
which means that ping works, and I am successfully querying the
nameserver. I found that I can also mount nfs filesystems with no
trouble. I cannont however, telnet, ftp, or access my nntp server
using a news reader. When I telnet or ftp, It connects to the remote
Is your nntp server on the other side of a gateway or something? Don't
forget that the machine you're SLIP'ing to needs to be configured to
route packets for you. Also, if you're just doing a `telnet <nntphost> 119'
and not seeing anything come back, try typing in a `^J' - some things
just don't handle ^M/^J mapping properly across telnet.
Also, does anybody know how to disable call waiting when using a
dial-back system?
Using dial-back? Woo.. I know that you can disable it using `*7' or
something to that effect (ask your operator) but I'm not sure if
that's for the lifetime of the _outgoing_ call you're about to make or
just in general until you do a `*8' or whatever it is to re-enable it.
If it's a `sticky' setting then you're in luck and should have no
problem doing this. Like I said, best thing is to ask your operator
for the control codes - they vary with different regional services.
Jordan