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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!nntp.uio.no!news.kth.se!tybalt.admin.kth.se!merope.saaf.se!electra.saaf.se!not-for-mail From: gorhas@electra.saaf.se (G|ran Hasse) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: DOS telnet and 2.2.2-RELEASE Date: 9 Jun 1997 23:01:49 +0200 Organization: Svensk Amat|rAstronomisk F|rening Lines: 46 Message-ID: <5nhqvt$sv5@electra.saaf.se> References: <5nbtka$m09@groa.uct.ac.za> NNTP-Posting-Host: electra.saaf.se Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42656 In article <5nbtka$m09@groa.uct.ac.za>, Test Person <test@gmtunx.ee.uct.ac.za> wrote: >I've been having problems accessing a machine running 2.2.2-RELEASE >using an old version of telnet for DOS. I think the telnet is NCSA >telnet. The messages which pop up in the messages window are as >follows : > >DO Option TERMINAL TYPE (WILL) >DO Option TSPEED (WONT) >DO Option Unknown Option (WONT) >DO Option Unknown Option (WONT) >DO Option Unknown Option (WONT) > >I tried recompiling the kernel with TCP_COMPAT_42 as suggested by >somebody, but to no avail. I then installed the 2.1.7 telnetd >in place of the default telnetd, and that solved the problem. I have noticed that there is som strange TCP-options when runing telnet. Infact the options krach my Lan analyser. When runing another Lan-analyser i get strange results... Does anybody know about this? >Does anybody have suggestions for solving this problem without >stepping back to 2.1.7, and without changing the version of >DOS telnet. The managers of the network are not willing to change >the DOS telnet. Previous versions of FreeBSD and the same version >of telnet have always cooperated in the past. > >The new telnetd (2.2.2-RELEASE version) handles telnet from other >unix machines, and from windows and windows NT without any problem > >Mark > >--------------------------------------- >This email address will vanish in a few weeks to avoid junk mail. > >Thereafter, mail can be sent to 'mark' at the above machine. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Göran Hasse gh@saaf.se Tel: +46 8 7730148 Raditex AB http://www.raditex.se Fax: +46 8 7730902 Kungsgatan 71 Minicall: 0740-167443 112 27 STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN