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To: Carey Nairn <cp_nairn@cc.utas.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: problem telnetting to a FreeBSD host.. 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 26 Jan 95 09:12:10 +1100."
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Wed, 25 Jan 1995 14:44:57 -0800
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>I have a problem trying to telnet to a FreeBSD host running version 2.0R.
>The problem is that the host seems to forget the address of the machine 
>trying to connect to it.  I can connect to the BSD machine the first time 
>after its been booted but then if I drop the connection and wait a 
>reasonable time, say 20 minutes or so, I can't reconnect unless I refresh 
>the arp tables using arp -a on the BSD host i wish to connect to.

   What ethernet card are you using?

-DG