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Date:      Thu, 18 Apr 2002 19:32:24 +0200
From:      "Tom Beer" <mailings@analogon.com>
To:        "mlholloway" <mlholloway@yahoo.com>, <freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Newbie Telnet Question
Message-ID:  <005c01c1e6ff$03cb7940$0901a8c0@system>
References:  <a9mufd%2Bk1a2@eGroups.com>

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> I know this is a total newbie question, but I installed FreeBSD on 
> my laptop and when I try to telnet from desktop it says "telnet: 
> unable to connect to remote host.  connection refused."

Is a telnet server running on that host you want to connect to?
Have you applied a route to a gateway?

post ifconfig output and netstat -nr

Try tcpdump -i <interface> and snip some output when trying
to connect via telnet.

Greets Tom


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