Subject: Re: login prompt not coming up in network
To: Ted Lemon <mellon@vix.com>
From: Michael Graff <explorer@vorpal.com>
List: current-users
Date: 12/20/1994 13:39:08
>I've seen some very bizarre behaviour from telnetd on NetBSD,
>particularly with the NCSA Telnet program. I'm pretty sure most of
>the lossage is in NCSA telnet, but there's definitely somethig about
>4.4bsd telnet (this happens with BSDI too, for example) that makes it
>behave really badly.
Ultrix 4.2 telnet and PHUX (er, HPUX) has some problems as well. Some
machines even reboot when I telnet to them. :)
I wonder if the problems all lie in the same area. The reboot thing
is that the device I'm talking to doesn't understand the IP timestamp
option which NetBSD sends out.
--Michael
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