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To: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
cc: dennis@etinc.com (dennis),
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Subject: Re: WD8013 problem 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 29 Sep 95 16:11:09 BST."
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Fri, 29 Sep 1995 08:29:39 -0700
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>> >    (note the missing login: prompt - it only appears when I type <cr>)
>
>To clarify: If I do nothing here the prompt never appears
>until the connections times out.
>
>> This happens on several of my FreeBSD machines. I'm not using WD8013s
>
>see above: Are you sure it's not slow response, process activation
>or whatever happens on the server side? I often see 'slow' connections
>where the prompt appears after a significant delay. But this is not what
>I'm describing.
>In my case the prompt appears immediately after I hit return
>as if it's already there. 

   This is caused by a race condition in the options negotiation of telnetd
and has been recently fixed. This fix was brought into 2.1-stable, and thus
will be in the 2.1 release.

-DG