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Date:      Tue, 8 Apr 1997 14:49:57 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Bill Grunfelder <wjgrun@cyberwar.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: finger[2.2.1] & xylogics terminal server
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970408144822.1399J-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970408110438.00953c30@pop.cyberwar.com>

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On Tue, 8 Apr 1997, Bill Grunfelder wrote:

> 
> I'm having a problem with FreeBSD 2.2.1 machines not being able to finger
> a Xylogics Remote Annex 4000 terminal server.  finger on 2.2.1 machines
> seems to work fine with other hosts though, and no problem whatsoever, if
> I use a 2.0.5, 2.1.0, or 2.1.5 machine to finger the terminal server. I've
> tried machines that were upgraded to FreeBSD 2.2.1, and machines that were
> installed with 2.2.1 from scratch.  In either case, 49 out of 50 times I get:

This is probably another escapade in the Annex tcp_extensions saga.  Edit
/etc/sysconfig and disable tcp_extensions.  Someone really needs to give
Annex some fixed code.  :)

> If I copy finger & libc.so.2.2 from a 2.1.5 machine, they work.  I'd rather
> not do that, is there another solution?  Is anyone else having this problem?

Hm, how odd.  

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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