From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 18 09:41:16 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA08385 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 18 Jun 1996 09:41:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from uswgco2.uswc.uswest.com (uswgco2.uswest.com [206.196.133.74]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA08380 for ; Tue, 18 Jun 1996 09:41:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from smap@localhost) by uswgco2.uswc.uswest.com (8.7.1/8.7.1) id KAA09997; Tue, 18 Jun 1996 10:37:48 -0600 (MDT) Received: from egate.mnet.uswest.com(151.116.23.138) by uswgco2.uswc.uswest.com via smap (V1.3) id sma009964; Tue Jun 18 10:37:29 1996 Received: from easthub (easthub.mnet.uswest.com [151.117.26.86]) by egate.mnet.uswest.com (8.7.1/8.7.1) with SMTP id KAA20659; Tue, 18 Jun 1996 10:37:28 -0600 (MDT) Received: by easthub.mnet.uswest.com (M-Net Hub.951228) Received: from astro.acs.uswest.com by acs.uswest.com (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA27021; Tue, 18 Jun 1996 11:37:22 -0500 Received: by astro.acs.uswest.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id LAA04787; Tue, 18 Jun 1996 11:36:47 -0500 From: ptroot@uswest.com (Paul T. Root) Message-Id: <199606181636.LAA04787@astro.acs.uswest.com> Subject: Re: Talk problems btw. FreeBSD & Sun To: narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee (Narvi) Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 11:36:47 -0500 (CDT) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Narvi" at Jun 18, 96 06:25:59 pm X-Organization: !nterprise Networking Services X-Phone: (612) 663-1979 X-Fax: (612) 663-8030 X-Page: (800) SKY-PAGE PIN: 537-7270 X-Address: 200 S. 5th St., Suite 1100 X-Address: Minneapolis, MN 55402 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In a previous message, Narvi said: > > > HI! > > I am having problems with talk between a FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE machine > and a Sun4M running SunOS 5.5 (or so the uname reports). The problem is - > it is not possible to either talk from FreeBSD to the sun (using talk > user@sun.machine) or from the Sun to FreeBSD (using talk > user@freebsd.machine). Tcpdump shows packets comming from the Sun machine > to the FreeBSD machine and icmp messages "udp port talk unreachable" going > pack to the Sun. Sun uses the old talk (BSD4.2 based). FreeBSD being 4.4, uses new talk. They are incompatable. I believe the solution is to get ntalk (new talk) on the Sun. Paul. -- Paul T. Root - USWEST !NTERPRISE Networking Service ptroot@uswest.com If it all worked, we wouldn't have a job.