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From: David Dawes <dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: rsh and ppp
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On Wed, Apr 16, 1997 at 10:34:28PM -0500, John Prince wrote:
>Why does the rsh command not work when alias is enabled with ppp?
>I get the error ...
>"select: protocol failure in circuit setup" 
>This happens only on ppp connections. On the local net rsh works fine.
>Release 2.2.1-RELEASE..

When I tried this a while ago, I found that reserved ports were getting
mapped to non-reserved ports, thus breaking things like rsh, rlogin, etc.

David