On Thu, 2 Nov 2000 09:46:28 -0500, you wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 09:05:53AM -0500, Shane A. Dawalt wrote:
> >=20
> >   I have found an odd problem with telnetd on NetBSD 1.4.2.  It gets
> > irritated when connected to by Hummingbird 6.2.0 Telnet.  When I =
connect
>=20
> Same, except I'm using Hummingbird's eXceed's "HostExplorer" (version
> 6.1.0) to telnet. Same software, different version. I am using NetBSD
> 1.4.2 on an Alpha.
>=20
> > I get the normal user and password prompts, but then things hang.  I =
do
>=20
> Then you are doing well. For the longest time I couldn't get logged in.
> I had no problems telneting (same client) to a Digital UNIX box and
> then rlogining to my NetBSD box. But a direct telnet to the NetBSD box
> would result in no end of problems. Of course, HostExplorer doesn't
> support rlogin.=20

=46WIW I get exactly the same symptoms trying to use Attachmate's
"Keaterm" VTxxx terminal emulator (version 5.something) to login to
both NetBSD 1.4.1 & 1.4.2.  But if I login to one of our other Unixen
first (Digital Unix 4.0D, Ultrix 4.4, HPUX 10.20, Solaris 2.6, various
Linuxen) I have no problem, and I can then *telnet* (I never use
rlogin) on to the NetBSD boxes.

However, I have found that the very wonderful freeware VT100 emulator
Terraterm for Win32 has no problem logging into NetBSD directly.  I
find this very amusing (compared to the inability of the expensive
Keaterm to do the same thing), and resort to using Terraterm for
preference a *lot* (with the added advantage that Terraterm starts up
in about 0.5 seconds flat, compared with Keaterm's 10 seconds
minimum). =20

I played around a lot with Keaterm's extensive options for fiddling
with line discipline in various ways, but so far without success.

I'm most interested in Manuel Bouyer's suggestion of starting telnetd
with the '-k' option, and will try it. =20

Why should NetBSD's telnetd need tweaking in this way, where other
Unixen don't ?

Cheers,
Nick Boyce
Bristol, UK

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