From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 20 00:35:17 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA18256 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 20 Jun 1997 00:35:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from aak.anchorage.net (ai-133.anchorage.net [207.14.72.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA18248 for ; Fri, 20 Jun 1997 00:35:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (abc@localhost) by aak.anchorage.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA04669 for ; Thu, 19 Jun 1997 23:23:53 -0800 (AKDT) X-Authentication-Warning: aak.anchorage.net: abc owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 23:23:52 -0800 (AKDT) From: Steve Howe X-Sender: abc@aak.anchorage.net To: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: telnetting to RedHat4 In-Reply-To: <199706200224.SAA00464@iceberg.anchorage.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 > Steve, > Alrighty then... The cons25w was what we needed. Thanks. It appears > to be working now. Please, would you verify it for me though? Maybe telnet > and try "vi", "irc", and such.. See if they work ok... > Don't worry about being a termcap expert! I think the only person > who would claim to be an expert is the goof who invented the idea of 50 zillion > different terminal types to begin with!!! =) Sheesh... Couldn't we all just > agree on one! " VT-100 FOR EVERYONE!!! " (Ahh, but I guess I'm a dreamer!) > Hahaha > > >sorry - i was trying to be brief! here's the cons?? entries, > >minus the russian stuff ... thanks again. i gave my freebsd cons25/50 entries to my RehHat4 isp, but i still get "connection closed by foreign host" when telnet-ing. i can ftp/http/etc, and can even telnet from an xterm. is it likely my isp didn't do something right with my cons?? entries? ------------------------------------------------- FingerPrint BA09868C 1B995204 58410FD3 A5E7B2DA http://www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/way/7747 -------------------------------------------------