From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 3 00:55:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA21351 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 3 Jun 1998 00:55:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA21312 for ; Wed, 3 Jun 1998 00:55:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA22905; Wed, 3 Jun 1998 00:55:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 00:55:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: charlespeters@tecpro.com cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New FreeBSD 2.2.6 box, telnet problem In-Reply-To: <199806030255.WAA22064@ais.ais-gwd.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 2 Jun 1998, Charles A. Peters wrote: > I have just configured a new FreeBSD 2.2.6 box to be used as an > email, web, and ftp server. I currently have this machine connected > to my lan for testing purposes (Novell Netware and win95 with > tcp/ip). > > I am unable to reliably telnet into this machine from my win95 box. > Connections take several seconds to be established, and usually drop > after a few minutes. For the slow connects make sure that you can reverse-resolve the client's IP address. For the drops, I don't know, run a tcpdump on the session and see if the packets are coming through okay. Also try disabling tcp extensions in /etc/rc.conf if you have a router between the client and server. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message