Date: Wed, 07 May 2003 15:03:48 +0200 From: Lars =?iso-8859-1?Q?K=F6ller?= <Lars.Koeller@Uni-Bielefeld.DE> To: Mark Cammidge <mark@peralex.com> Cc: Lars =?iso-8859-1?Q?K=F6ller?= <Lars.Koeller@Uni-Bielefeld.DE> Subject: Re: HELP: TCP stack problem in 4.8-R with rsh connects (second channel) Message-ID: <200305071303.h47D3mC08065@rayadm.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de> In-Reply-To: "Your message of Wed, 07 May 2003 13:26:03 %2B0200." <3EB8ED4B.6090505@peralex.com>
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Hi,
this mail results out of my news group posting concerning
PR bin/51586
In reply to Mark Cammidge who wrote:
>
> > Sporadically the rshd can't open the second tcp connection back
> > to the port the rsh-client has announced.
>
> Hi. I don't have a simple solution for you, but
> some things you may want to try:
>
> - Check whether a FreeBSD-Solaris or Solaris-FreeBSD
> combination works. That may not be useful to you,
> but I think it will help other people to track
> down the source of the problem.
I've tested this, it doesen't change anything!
> - Try update to FreeBSD-STABLE - the problem may have
> been fixed already.
> - Try update to FreeBSD-CURRENT - it's pretty stable
> and may not suffer from the same problem.
Hm, I don't like this, really for production machines.
> - Use SSH instead of rsh. I suspect most people are
> no longer using rsh, and ssh is meant to be pretty
> much a drop in replacement. You can set it up to
> avoid needing passwords. It will probably be
> somewhat slower though.
That's the point, there is no need to crypt, and performance would be
too poor!
> - Post to one of the mailing lists - the developers
> who work on this soft of stuff are more likely to
> read about it there than they are in the newsgroup.
I have!
Thanks and best regards
Lars
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