> are you using the redhat flavour of linux.
> the thing in redhat you have to enable telnet in the new versions.
There is a reason for this. Newer versions of red hat come with ssh
preinstalled. Use ssh in place of telnet. IMHO telnet is dead, and it is
best kept that way. SSH is more secure and with clients like PUTTY under
win32, usage is a no brainer. And for connecting from other linux/unix
machines, install ssh on them. SSH is there on most of the new linux distros
by default.
Anyway to enable telnet on red hat 7.x u need to edit the entries for xinetd
service. If I remember correctly u need to edit a file for telnetd in
/etc/xinetd.d. I haven't done anything to my red hat install for some time,
so I might not be right about this ;)
> ping would work anyways becuase your network is up.
Actually u can disable ping replies using the built in firewall, and it is a
good thing to do so. All my machines that connect to the net have this rule
in the firewall. It saves a lot of automated hack attacks ;)
Ambar
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