On 18-May-07 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 07:33:14AM -0700, Chuck Grimes wrote: >> enabled in inetd.conf. >> >> My problem is that using the modem to connect to my isp, I can not get >> fetchmail, rsh, rlogin, or ftp to work. They all start just fine and >> then hang. I have to kill the user1 to get the tty1 back. >> >> I set this new box (6.2) up with a network connection to my old box >> (4.2) as a gateway. When the 4.2 box connects to the isp, I can use >> rsh, rlogin, fetchmail from the new box using the old box as the >> connection. This implies there is something wrong with the new box >> serial connection to my isp. >> >> However, from the new box (6.2) after starting the dial up connection >> on the serial port, I can use telnet to get to the isp shell account. >> >> What is the difference between how rsh uses the various ip/tcp >> protocols and how telnet? > > Sounds like a routing problem to me, i,e., your ISP is part of a local > network connection (so you can telnet to it) but your ISP's gateway is > not set as a default route on the 6.2 box like it is on the 4.2 box. > > HTH, > > Steve
Thanks for the response. Sorry about my long delayed response. I worked most of Saturday playing around with ppp and various options in rc.conf trying to narrow the problem down to some kind of route problem. In the process I did find some routing problems and fixed them. But there was no improvement in the failure to keep an rsh or ftp session going over a serial port connection with my isp. I am going to start another thread under the title ``sio problems?'' and try to figure out what's wrong with my serial port. I suspect while sio4 works enough to start a link with my isp, it somehow fails at some point. I think the problem is the serial port configuration. I suspect the swap during bootup sio0 -> sio4 is the heart of the problem. With that in mind, I think you are right about a routing problem in the sense that the mapping of physical serial device (modem) to its virtual serial device (sio0 -> sio4) is mixed up somehow and that in turn creats the effect of a routing problem. Even if a fixed serial port system doesn't help, at least it will be one more problem fixed. CG (this was also delayed by the list server as spam?) _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
