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From: Oystein Soreide <oystein@frosk.zoo.uib.no>
To: "Khaleel K. Al-Jadaan" <jadaan@engin.umich.edu>
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Subject: Re: Telnet from FreeBSD to Linux
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> I have two connected machines each with two partitions, one for Linux
> and one for FreeBSD, and when I try to Telnet from the FreeBSD at one
> machine to the Linux partition on the other, I get a message saying
> "Connection closed by forighn host", its works fine the other way=20
> around. Any suggestions ?

Have you configured your Linux to start inetd with telnetd option ?

If you will connect to the linux machine you have to have telnetd started=
=20
on both machines.

in /etc/inetd.conf:
telnet  stream ....(and so on) , see the manual for inetd

=D8ystein