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From: "Tom Beer" <mailings@analogon.com>
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Subject: Re: Newbie Telnet Question
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 19:32:24 +0200
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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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