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Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 11:22:24 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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To: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com>
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Subject: Re: FTP install
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On Thu, 30 Oct 1997, Matthew D. Fuller wrote:

> I'm trying to do a FTP install between two machines; one is my box
> (mortis; representing itself as 10.20.30.1), and the other is a friend's
> box (virus, 10.20.30.2).  They're hooked up by Ethernet thru a hub.  I
> boot up virus, it goes thru all the detecting, configing, etc, then it
> tries to start the FTP install.  It say 'logging in to ftp@10.20.30.1',
> and never goes beytond that.  It doesn't hang or anything, and I know
> that both cards are working, because I can see occasional blips on my hub,
> but there's usually only 3 or 4 blips, maybe 10 secs apart, and it times
> out with no connection made; it says 'service unavailable'.  Is this
> perhaps a misconfiguration of ftpd?  I don't think so because I can ftp to
> the 10.20.30.1 from mortis, or to mortis from outside at it's 'real' IP,
> and it works just fine.

What are you specifying for the interface options in the installer (ip,
netmask, gateway, etc.)?

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major