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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!news.mathworks.com!news.PBI.net!samba.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!bug.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!ddsw1!news.mcs.net!van-bc!uniserve!usenet From: nobody@uniserve.com (No Body) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: ping works, telnet won't Date: 3 Jul 1996 22:07:16 GMT Organization: UNIServe Online Lines: 21 Distribution: world Message-ID: <4requk$npt@atlas.uniserve.com> References: <4r2kho$f5p@agate.berkeley.edu> <4r3gkm$s7j@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: 204.244.210.194 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.6 In article <4r3gkm$s7j@uriah.heep.sax.de>, j@uriah.heep.sax.de says... > >bob@nemesis.its.berkeley.edu (bob prohaska) wrote: > >> I've set up an elderly 386 as a dedicated slip terminal server, >> and it seems to work admirably save for one small problem: I can >> ping anywhere, but telnet and ftp (seemingly all things wanting >> interactive logins) stop cold after establishing a connection. > >Do UDP-based services work (DNS lookup, NFS mounts, talk requests)? > >If so, it might be related to the TCP extensions. You can disable >them in /etc/sysconfig. Probably not. There can't be that many broken TCP stacks around! Most likely, you are doing CSLIP (vj compression), and the other end is doing SLIP, or vice versa. Tom