From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 18 04:04:48 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id EAA11050 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 04:04:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from darius.concentric.net (darius.concentric.net [207.155.184.79]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id EAA11043 for ; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 04:04:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from newman.concentric.net (newman [207.155.184.71]) by darius.concentric.net (8.8.5/(97/05/21 3.30)) id HAA22023; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 07:04:43 -0400 (EDT) [1-800-745-2747 The Concentric Network] Received: from shag (ts001d22.sal-ut.concentric.net [206.173.156.34]) by newman.concentric.net (8.8.5) id HAA28737; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 07:04:41 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <33A7C076.D3E27042@concentric.net> Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 05:03:18 -0600 From: Joshua Fielden Organization: Shaggy Enterprises X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.0 [en] (Win95; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steve Howe CC: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: telnetting to RedHat4 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Steve Howe wrote: > > i can get a telnet login prompt to my ISPs server (RedHat4.0) > with an Xterm, but not from a ttyv? ... > > how does this make sense? > > from a ttyv?, i get "Connection closed by foreign host". > i can however get a prompt from a ttyv? when trying their nameserver. > ------------------------------------------------- > FingerPrint BA09868C 1B995204 58410FD3 A5E7B2DA > http://www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/way/7747 > ------------------------------------------------- What worked for me in the same situation, was to set my term type to vt100. i.e: NOT cons25. If this does work, please post the finale, as I am interested to see. -- SCSI is *not* magic. There are many technical reasons why it is occasionally nessicary to sacrifice a small goat to your SCSI chain. Joshua Fielden