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Re: NetBlazer ST and Linux

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From: Mike Andrews
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 1994 16:10
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In article <Cz88F8.5HF@rci.ripco.com>,
Dennis Duffner <duffy@dduff.pr.mcs.net> wrote:
>Nathan Stratton (nathan@novanet.com) wrote:
>: Frank Dwyer (dwyer@ibm12.scri.fsu.edu) wrote:
>: : Nathan Stratton (nathan@novanet.com) wrote:
>: : :>Hi, I have a TeleBit NetBlazer ST and I am trying to get it to work right 
>: : :>with Linux. Ok this is my problem, my users dialin toteh NetBlazer and a 
>: : :>command line does a rlogin to my main server. This workes great, the 
>: : :>problem is when user try to download a fiel with sz, sx, or kermit they 
>: : :>get a LOT of errors every sec or so, and you can't upload at all. I also 
>: : :>have a strange problem when the users who dialin are using ytalk or talk 
>: : :>every once in a while you get:
>
>: : I can confirm this behavior as well.  We have a public-access cluster of
>: : Linux boxes connected to a network with three Netblazer ST's.  We find that
>: : when using rlogin from the netblazers, zmodem fails and pine puts garbage
>: : all over the screen.  If we use telnet from the netblazers, everything
>: : works.  Note also that using rlogin to another architecture (IBM or Sun)
>: : works fine -- pine behaves, and zmodem works.  
>
>: : We're puzzled as well... It's confusing a lot of our users.
>
>: : -f
>
>: : --
>: : Frank Dwyer (dwyer@scri.fsu.edu)              Office: 443 SCL (904) 644-6008
>: : http://www.scri.fsu.edu/~dwyer                FAX   :         (904) 644-0098
>: : Unix System Manager / Systems Development     Pager :         (904) 422-4333
>
>: : Supercomputer Computations Research Institute
>: : Florida State University
>: : Tallahassee, FL 32306
>
>: : -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>: :  "Unix _IS_ user friendly... It's just selective about who its friends are."
>: : -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>: Ok, so what do we do to slove this problem? My users also would liek to 
>: be able to upload and download files. Can someone tell be is I can use a 
>: Telbit NetBazer with Linux? I am not sure if this is a Telebit problem or 
>: a Linux problem, I just need to get this to work.
>
>: --
>
>: Nathan Stratton		CEO, NovaNet, Inc. On-Line Communication Services
>
>: -- 
>
>: Nathan Stratton		CEO, NovaNet, Inc. On-Line Communication Services
>
>Try adding -8 to the command line on the rlogin or make them telnet into your
>network.
>
>--
>/-------------------------------------------------\
>| Dennis Duffner               "No matter where   |
>| duffy@dduff.pr.mcs.net        you go, there     |
>| dduff@golden.ripco.com       you are."          |
>| #include disclaimer.h           Buckaroo Bonzai |
>\-------------------------------------------------/


Alo try telnet -8 -noesc
and
rlogin -8 -noesc

The "noesc" prevents telnet from going to interactive command mode on
a binary file transfer.


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Mike Andrews                                     mikea@MCS.Com
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Subject: Re: NetBlazer ST and Linux
Date: 14 Nov 1994 10:10:14 -0600
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