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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!xlink.net!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!news.uni-ulm.de!news.belwue.de!fu-berlin.de!cs.tu-berlin.de!fauern!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: SLIP problem Date: 25 Jun 1995 16:53:26 +0200 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 27 Message-ID: <3sjt96$h9k@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <3sibpe$ah@seymour.sfu.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Paraskevas Andrea Polydorou <polydoro@sfu.ca> wrote: >I managed to connect to my SLIP provider and ping the machine. >When I try to telnet that machine though I get the initial messages >"Connected to host, Ctrl-] etc" but I don't get the login: prompt. >The instruction given by the provider for people using Winsock are to >have gateway and netmask 0.0.0.0. >With FreeBSD gateway doesn't work as 0 so I entered the annex address. >(Please don't get mad) The 0.0.0.0 won't work, indeed. The address of the termserver will be the right one (since it's the only foreign address visible from you). You didn't mention the FreeBSD version, i suppose it's a pre-2.0.5, where the following has not been part of the regular /etc/rc or /etc/sysconfig startup sequence: sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.rfc1323=0 sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.rfc1644=0 This will turn of T/TCP (Transaction TCP) which tends to confuse some (broken) term servers. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)