On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 11:50:00AM -0800, Zach Fine wrote:
> 
> I've been waiting months for a DSL connection down here in sunny LA,
> and in the meantime I figured I'd get my Mac (running MacOS9.0.4) up
> on the net by connecting it and my iopener (a weird little PC running
> NetBSD 1.5 (GENERIC), with ipf and IPNat and a USB-ethernet adapter)
> to my 100BT switch.
> 
> So far so good, I can actually establish a ppp connection to my ISP
> with the iopener's modem, and can then ftp, telnet, and make http
> connections from the Mac to the internet at large.
> 
> But the thing I can't figure out is that I can't make any such
> connections from my Mac to my iopener, and they're directly connected
> to one another on the same LAN and are obviously
> communicating. Whenever I try to establish an ftp or telnet connection
> from the Mac (at 192.168.1.2) to the iopener (at 192.168.1.1), I'm
> told instantly that the connection was refused. However I can ping the
> iopener from the Mac (using a piece of Mac software called
> interarchy).
> 
> To avoid including a ton of configuration info in this message, I've
> instead placed the output of 'ifconfig -a', and the /etc/hosts and
> /etc/ipnat.conf files from the iopener at
> http://xdsl014.serv.net/netbsd/IOPENER/
> hopefully whatever mistake I've made in the configuration will be
> obvious to some kind soul who checks out these files. 
> 
> I just don't understand how it can be possible that I can't make
> connections directly from the Mac to the iopener, yet can make
> connections to the internet through the iopener.
> 
> Thanks for any help or information.
> 
> -Zach Fine
> czyz@serv.net
> 

I don't mean to sound insulting.  Did you enable telnet and ftp in
/etc/inetd.conf?

Ben
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