From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 18 14:49:33 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA13372 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 14:49:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from aak.anchorage.net (ai-132.anchorage.net [207.14.72.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA13367 for ; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 14:49:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (abc@localhost) by aak.anchorage.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA02602; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 13:37:52 -0800 (AKDT) X-Authentication-Warning: aak.anchorage.net: abc owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 13:37:51 -0800 (AKDT) From: Steve Howe X-Sender: abc@aak.anchorage.net To: Joshua Fielden cc: watson@anchorage.net, freebsd-questions Subject: Re: telnetting to RedHat4 In-Reply-To: <33A7C076.D3E27042@concentric.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, Joshua Fielden wrote: > 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? > What worked for me in the same situation, telnetting to a friend's BSD box then telnetting to RedHat, *brand-new* > install> 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. damn! that worked! :) hehe! i don't get it! it kind of sucks to have to do that every time i want to telnet though! i thought it would also solve my iijPPP "what?" problem (not adding the default route), but it didn't. kernel PPP always works after a few attempts ... ------------------------------------------------- FingerPrint BA09868C 1B995204 58410FD3 A5E7B2DA http://www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/way/7747 -------------------------------------------------