From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 25 14:53:19 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id OAA05900 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 25 Jan 1995 14:53:19 -0800 Received: from tasman.cc.utas.edu.au (cp_nairn@tasman.cc.utas.edu.au [131.217.10.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA05894 for ; Wed, 25 Jan 1995 14:53:17 -0800 Received: (from cp_nairn@localhost) by tasman.cc.utas.edu.au (8.6.8/8.6.6) id JAA11786; Thu, 26 Jan 1995 09:52:56 +1100 Date: Thu, 26 Jan 1995 09:52:54 +1100 (DST) From: Carey Nairn To: David Greenman cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: problem telnetting to a FreeBSD host.. In-Reply-To: <199501252245.OAA00202@corbin.Root.COM> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 25 Jan 1995, David Greenman wrote: > >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 > The ethernet card is a NE2000 clone configured for 0x300 and IRQ 10. ========================================================================= Carey Nairn ! email : Carey.Nairn@its.utas.edu.au Networks and Communications ! phone : (002) 20 7419 Information Technology Services ! fax : (002) 20 7898 University of Tasmania. ! =========================================================================