Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 15:43:50 +1000 (EST) From: Richard J Uren <richard@thehub.com.au> To: Joe McGuckin <joe@ns.via.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Strange TCP/Telnet behavoir Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960510153646.938A-100000@smople.thehub.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199605092324.QAA00926@ns.via.net>
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On Thu, 9 May 1996, Joe McGuckin wrote: > I have set up a firewall using FreeBSD 2.0.1 and fwtk. > > When connecting to the firewall from either a > SCO or BSDI machine, I can connect and authenticate ok. When I say > "connect foobar", the telnet proxy hangs forever. > > On the same ethernet are 2 SCO machines. One has an older version of SCO - > that machine can get in ok. The newer version of SCO hangs. > > Telnetting in from a Sun or FreeBSD machine works ok. > > Any ideas? > > Thanks, > > Joe > Hey Joe, We had a similar problem some time ago here - try disabling tcp extensions on the firewall machine. Our problem wasn't with a firewall but with 2 FreeBSD boxes talking through an annex 4000 (terminal server). The command is sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.rfc1323=0 sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.rfc1644=0 The older version of SCO might not support TCP extensions (wild guess). Cheers Richard
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