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Date:      Fri, 3 Jan 1997 18:16:14 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Dhiraj Soni <dsoni@empros.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Problem with FreeBSD?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.95.970103181208.11231H-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.89.9701021917.A51893-0100000@ndakota.empros.com>

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On Thu, 2 Jan 1997, Dhiraj Soni wrote:

> 
> Even if the machine is on and connected to network I cannot do 
> remote access on it .I can 't use any tool (telnet,ftp,finger,ping ..)
> to see if it's up. Now if I use telnet from the local network to
> machine it works and also then remote accessing also starts working.
> 
>   The thing is if you leave the machine for some time without 
> accessing it if disables remote access. Why?

I wonder if this is a routing problem.  

Run 'netstat -rn' and make sure that checks out.  Also try disabling
routed in /etc/sysconfig.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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