From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 29 18:50:46 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA24222 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:50:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from super-g.inch.com (super-g.com [204.178.32.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA24217 for ; Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:50:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (spork@localhost) by super-g.inch.com (8.8.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id WAA17098; Tue, 29 Apr 1997 22:11:12 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 22:11:12 -0400 (EDT) From: spork X-Sender: spork@super-g.inch.com To: Adam Furman cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Telnet Sessions In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, You missed an important line at the bottom of the kernel config file: -|super-g|-$ tail /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/SUPERG #pseudo-device ppp 1 #pseudo-device tun 1 >>pseudo-device pty 16 pseudo-device gzip # Exec gzipped a.out's Just increase the "pseudo-device pty" line to 32 and recompile the kernel. If you want 64, you will have to make more device nodes, which I believe goes like this: in /dev ./MAKEDEV pty2 But I'd double-check that one... Charles On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, Adam Furman wrote: > We are running a new 2.2.1 box which was an upgrade. It seems like we > can't have more then 16 connections to this box. When you telnet to it > this is the error > Trying 127.0.0.1... > Connected to localhost.j51.com. > Escape character is '^]'. > telnetd: All network ports in use. > Connection closed by foreign host. > > In the kernel we have maxusers set to 64 > we also have 32 devices and they are listed in ttys > I can't think of anything else that could be causing this. Please email > me if you know what could be causing this. > Adam > > Adam Furman > Assistant System Administrator of United Computer Specialists > afurman@amf.net > Irc Admin of irc.ucs.net > > > >