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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!news From: Daniel O'Callaghan <danny@hilink.com.au> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Telnet to Freebsd freezes Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 11:15:26 +1000 Organization: HiLink Communications Lines: 23 Message-ID: <316C5D2E.41C6@hilink.com.au> References: <4kaqff$jmn@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> <DpMLpr.AMo@nemesis.lonestar.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: clyde.its.unimelb.edu.au Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; I; OSF1 V3.0 alpha) To: Frank Durda IV <uhclem@nemesis.lonestar.org> Frank Durda IV wrote: > > Thieu Le (thieule@wam.umd.edu) wrote: > [0]I'm having a problem telnetting to another Freebsd machine. I can telnet > [0]to other systems just fine (Linux, SunOS, OSF1, etc), but when I try to > [0]log into another Freebsd machine from my Freebsd machine, it gets to the: > [0]Connected to hostname. > [0]Escape character is '^]'. > [0]and then it just sits there. I have doubled checked my network settings > > When you get to this point, type [CTRL]-J. If you get a login prompt, > then you have an incompatible combination of telnet and telnetd. I run > into this problem on 2.x (it has been reported but not fixed). > In my case, I replace the telnetd program on the 2.x system with the > telnetd from a 1.1.5.1 release and nearly all the telnet problems go > away. Just solved a TCP connection problem for a friend. He is running FreeBSD2.0.5 and could not get tcp connections with other FreeBSD2.x machines working. Setting /etc/sysconfig:tcp_extensions=NO fixed the problem. Danny