From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 17 7:18:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 040C414A01 for ; Sun, 17 Oct 1999 07:17:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.0.4] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.032 #1) id 11cpCL-000CFM-00; Sun, 17 Oct 1999 13:14:01 +0100 Received: (from ben) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.032 #1) id 11cpCK-0000OI-00; Sun, 17 Oct 1999 13:14:00 +0100 Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 13:14:00 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: Marc Schneiders Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: telnetd: All network ports in use Message-ID: <19991017131400.B1284@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Marc Schneiders wrote: > Box (386) running 3.3 RC. Telnet is not working. It is working on a > similar 386 box, with same version of FreeBSD installed. > Ttyp's are ok, they are there in /dev and I remade them, doing MAKEDEV > pty7. /etc/ttys is also ok. > I had set maxusers to 10, but increased that to 24. > > Telnet localhost and telnetting from another host give the same: > > Escape character is '^]'. > telnetd: All network ports in use. > Connection closed by foreign host. You probably need support for more PTYs in the kernel. Increase the number on the "pseudo-device pty" line in your kernel configuration, build and install the kernel, and reboot. You may need to build more device nodes (although I see you say you've done that). -- Ben Smithurst | PGP: 0x99392F7D ben@scientia.demon.co.uk | key available from keyservers and | ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message